Leading man John Payne is often mistakenly credited as playing the bit part of Apache Jack in this film. It is not he. The role is played by Jack Payne, whose only known film this was. John Payne was far too well known by 1939 to play a bit part without dialog in a B-Western.
This film's earliest documented telecasts took place in Altoona Friday 8 June 1956 on WFBG (Channel 10) and in Salt Lake City Sunday 24 June 1956 on KUTV (Channel 2) and in Philadelphia Sunday 8 July 1956 on WFIL (Channel 6); an immediate and high rated audience favorite, it first aired in New York City Wednesday 26 September 1956 on WOR (Channel 9), in Dallas Friday 5 October 1956 on WBAP (Channel 5), in New Haven Sunday 28 October 1956 on WNHC (Channel 8), in Detroit Saturday 17 November 1956 on WJBK (Channel 2), in San Francisco Thursday 29 November 1956 on KPIX (Channel 5), in Memphis Saturday 1 December 1956 on WHBQ (Channel 13), and in Wilkes-Barre Friday 28 December 1956 on WILK (Channel 34).
Douglas Walton, who plays Bob Mulford in this film played Pearson in The Lost Patrol. Badlands is a reworking of the Lost Patrol.