They felt that its plot was so similar to the recently released Stanley and Livingstone (1939) that it could not be made as written without seeming too derivative, so they turned the project over to Frank Butler and Don Hartman, the writers on the wildly successful Road to Singapore which Paramount had released the year before.
They felt that its plot was too similar to the recently released Stanley and Livingstone (1939) to be made as written without appearing derivative, so they handed over the project to Frank Butler and Don Hartman, the writers behind the successful Road to Singapore which Paramount had released the previous year.