One of only a handful of films to be shot in the widescreen Magnifilm 65mm format (other studios were also experimenting with other wide formats at the time). The expense of upgrading theaters with new screens and projectors - after just having to install sound equipment - coupled with the Depression and the December 1930 edict from the MPPDA that the film industry not cause "the public's curiosity to be aroused about any new innovations for at least two years" effectively killed the new format. Widescreen formats did not return until the middle of the 1950s out of the necessity to compete with television.
Long thought to be lost, a nitrate print of the film was discovered in the Mary Pickford Estate in 1987 and restored by the UCLA Film and Television Archive in 1988.
Mary Pickford purchased the rights to this film hoping to produce a remake starring Humphrey Bogart and Lillian Gish.
The Magnifilm 65mm version was screened in about 18 large cities but had more or less the same anticipated response as did the standard version, bringing to an end (for a time) the expectation that the wider film would attract a wider audience.
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