 Star Bill Cody (I) (qv) had a lot of trouble reading his lines,  because he had had little schooling in his youth and could barely  read; not a particular disadvantage in silent films, where Cody got  his start, but an absolute necessity for talkies. Director  Harry L. Fraser (qv) rewrote the script so that Codys character  was named "Silent Saunders", and for the rest of the picture Cody  only used three words: "Yep", "Nope" and "Maybe".