Shot in DeLuxe Color and CinemaScope, the film is a remake of "House of Strangers" (1949) with the Phillip Yordan screenplay (based upon the novel "I'll Never Go There Any More" by Jerome Weidman), transplanted out west, featuring Tracy in the original Edward G. Robinson role, this time as a cowboy cattle baron rather than a Lower East Side Italian immigrant banker in New York City. It has also been widely noted that the storyline bears a strong resemblance to "King Lear".