When trying to put out the fire in the hay barn a bucket brigade of men are taking large buckets of water from a water trough. Despite bucket after bucket being removed from the trough the water level never decreases.
Ward Bond who played the character of Big Dan Halliday was, in real life, only two years older than Joseph Cotten who portrayed his son Daniel Halliday and only 13 years older than Bill Williams who played the part of his other son Clay Halliday.