A cloudburst swept away an entire filming location just thirty minutes after the company, who had been working on a river bottom all morning, had left for the day.
According to contemporary newspaper articles, Wallace Beery accidentally shot himself in the leg with a blank cartridge on 13 September 1937. He was taken to the Cedars of Lebanon Hospital and was unable to work for two weeks.
Wallace Beery killed a five foot rattlesnake with nine rattles, which had coiled itself around a camera tripod.
Virginia Bruce was stung by a mosquito and her right eye became painfully swollen. This delayed her work in the production.