Rare "bad-guy" role for Glenn Ford (I).

Columbia Pictures spent quite a bit on The Man in Colorado. At one point, the crew dynamited the side of a 1500-foot mountain in California's San Fernando Valley in order to create a deep gorge as called for by the script. And the western town they constructed was one of the largest location sets ever built by Columbia up to that time. During filming of a massive fire scene at the end, however, the set caught fire uncontrollably, and Holden and Ford tried to actually fight the fire until firemen could arrive. "Dad came away coated in black soot, with burns to his arms and hands," Ford's son Peter later wrote.

Edmond Goulding and Charles Vidor were at first named to direct the film, but Henry Levin eventually made it.

Final film of Cy Schindell.

Opening credits: The characters and incidents portrayed and the names used herein are fictitious and any similarity to the name character or history of any person is entirely accidental and unintentional.

Continuity

At the court scene (00:30:10), William Holden's character makes the same movement twice in consecutive shots whilst getting off the chair.

Glenn Ford shoots William Holden it's obvious he shoots him in the back as Holden has his back to him and he arches his back but after the doctor has attended to him he still has his shirt on, is lying on his back and only has a bandage on his wrist.



Factual errors

When Johnny Howard pays the bartender with gold dust, the bartender weighs it with scales, but he pours the gold into the scale until it goes all the way down. The correct way to do it is to put the correct scale weight on one side and then pour the gold slowly into the other side until the scales are balanced.



Anachronisms

Many of the men are wearing trousers with belt loops and belts. Belt loops were not added to men's trousers until the 20th century.

Shown was the Remington 1875 revolver. The Civil War ended in 1865 so this revolver was not even invented.