The failure of the original copyright holder to renew the film's copyright resulted in it falling into public domain, meaning that virtually anyone could duplicate and sell a VHS/DVD copy of the film. Therefore, many of the versions of this film available on the market are either severely (and usually badly) edited and/or of extremely poor quality, having been duped from second- or third-generation (or more) copies of the film.
One of the few films in which Jack Haley received top billing. In most of his films he was usually billed third or even lower--in his most famous film, The Wizard of Oz (1939), in which he played the Tin Man, he was billed fifth.