A 33 minute copy survives at the Cinémathèque de Paris.
Lon Chaney simulated blindness in one eye by using one of the first scleral (full-eye) white glass contact lenses made for theatrical use. He used non-flexible collodion to form the facial scars.
The production employed a reported 200 African American extras.
Lenore Bushman's debut.
It has been repeatedly claimed in lexicon articles on B. M. Croker that the movie was based on the 1917 novel 'The Road to Mandalay' by Irish novelist B. M. Croker, possibly first in the book 'The Feminist companion to literature in English. Women writers from the Middle Ages to the present' in 1990.
However, since the movie reappeared, it has become clear that there are no apparent similarities in characters and plot to be found and the claim seems unfounded.
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