First National also released this film as a silent movie at 2,741.07 m.
In a separately filmed trailer, Vitaphone production reel #2967, Milton Sills and Corinne Griffith speak about the film.
In September 1928, Warner Bros. Pictures purchased a majority interest in First National Pictures and from that point on, all "First National" productions were actually made under Warner Bros. control, even though the two companies continued to retain separate identities until the mid-1930's, after which time "A Warner Bros.-First National Picture" was often used.
This film was a joint preservation project of the UCLA Film and Television Archive and the Museum of Modern Art Department of Film in cooperation with the Czechoslovak Film Archive. It was restored in conjunction with the project American Moviemakers: The Dawn of Sound.
This was the very first sound film ever exhibited in Argentina. Max Glücksmann presented this film, which was distributed by MGM, with its original Vitaphone soundtrack in the Grand Splendid Movie Theater that also have Movietone equipment.
Vitaphone production reels #3031-3040
With this film, Frank Lloyd became one of only two directors to win the best director Oscar without their movie also being nominated for best picture. The only other film to win a directing Oscar without a best picture nomination was Two Arabian Knights, which won the only Oscar ever given for Comedy Direction to Lewis Milestone. Both Lloyd and Milestone won additional best director Oscars for directing best picture winners, Lloyd for Cavalcade and Milestone for All Quiet on the Western Front.