 June Marlowe (who was simultaneously appearing as school marm Miss Crabtree in the "Our Gang" series) appears only briefly in the film despite her receiving billing after Laurel and Hardy.An elaborate deleted sequence was filmed, in which the convicts set the prison on fire as part of their escape plan and the warden's daughter is seen screaming from her second floor bedroom.Stan Laurel did not find this sequence satisfactory, and re-filmed the much simpler ending involving the boys holding the convicts at bay with a machine gun.