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.
The skyscraper the crew is working on is the Wilshire Royale, located at 2619 Wilshire Blvd. Los Angeles. At the time of filming, it was known as The Arcady. Olive Philips, a Los Angeles leader of the anti-liquor Woman's Christian Temperance Union, had the upscale Arcady apartment-hotel built on the site of the Higgins mansion, which was moved down Wilshire to Windsor Square in 1924.
The resemblance of Trudy Marshall, who plays Jerry Hansford, to Elizabeth Short is remarkable. The year prior to this film's release, Elizabeth Short achieved infamy as the Black Dahlia, when her body was found in a vacant lot in Los Angeles, horribly mutilated and cut in half. Her murder has never been solved.