The screenplay was written by Sidney Buchman, Harry Sauber, Jack Kirkland, and John Howard Lawson (uncredited adaptation).

The story was written by Joseph Krumgold, suggested by the novel Purple and Fine Linen by May Edginton (spelled as Edington in the film).

Newspaper managing editor Phil Bane sends for conceited crime writer/criminologist George Melville to write stories and boost his circulation.

It turns out to be an elaborate practical joke on Melville concocted by the reporters; one of them is writing a play, Fury's Road, and Claire Peyton ("Mrs. Northrop") is the star.

Gregory's men have dug a tunnel between the theater where the play, set on the front lines of World War I, will be performed and the bank.

Frank Nugent described the film in The New York Times as "a lightweight and moderately diverting mystery tale which hurdles its absurdities with the greatest of ease and will be forgotten almost as soon as it fades from the screen.

"[1] In a 2011 article, Dave Kehr called it "a tedious mystery comedy, which opens with an astonishingly tasteless practical joke involving a dead child".

[2] The film is available on DVD as part of the Jean Arthur Comedy Collection, released by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.