At Mike Clancy's café, Sach declares that he would give his very soul to get even with the bookies, and immediately receives a visit from Beelzebub, the Devil himself, sporting a morning coat and two small horns under his hat.

In the same vein, the Broadway musical comedy Damn Yankees had the Devil in a leading comic role, and the Bowery Boys followed suit with Up in Smoke.

Producer Ben Schwalb had moved on to other projects at Allied Artists, but Huntz Hall still had two more films left on his contract.

Staff producer Richard Heermance was assigned to make these last two Bowery Boys features, Up in Smoke and In the Money.

Instead of casting a screen menace like Boris Karloff or Peter Lorre, or a lower-priced villain like Philip Van Zandt, they selected Byron Foulger, long established as the meekest and mildest character in the movies.

Warner Archives released the film on made-to-order DVD in the United States as part of "The Bowery Boys, Volume Three" on October 1, 2013.