Directed by Mark Sandrich from a screenplay by Edward Kaufman, Grant Garrett, Ralph Spence and Ben Holmes.

(cast list as per AFI database)[1] In February 1934 it was announced that Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey would appear in Cockeyed Cavaliers as their next film.

At the same time it was announced that Mark Sandrich would direct, and Dorothy Lee and Thelma Todd would appear as the female leads.

[9] The film contained two songs by Will Jason and Val Burton, "Big Bad Wolf Was Dead" and "Dilly Dally".

[14] The Motion Picture Herald also gave the film a positive review, saying that it lived up to the standards that the fans of Wheeler and Woolsey had come to expect.

[15] The film was one of 41 selected for President Franklin D. Roosevelt to take along with him on a vacation cruise through the Caribbean in July 1934.