This was William Bishop's last role and last movie.
This wasn't Fred MacMurray's first trip to Oregon; four years earlier, he played Merriweather Lewis in The Far Horizons (1955) opposite Charlton Heston as William Clarke.
The $15 that Harris pays for the items that Garrison tried to swipe in the store would be equivalent to about $253 in 2021.
Elizabeth Patterson (Grandma Cooper) appeared in earlier films as Fred MacMurray's mother in Sing, You Sinners (1938), and as his Aunt Emma in Remember the Night (1939).