Outtakes show that the original premise was to have Charles Chaplin play one of the employees at the clinic, but switched the roles with John Rand (who was to play the inebriate) after an uninspired performance. Chaplin himself specialized in drunken characters in the English music hall where he grew up.
The film was restored in 2013 through the Chaplin Mutual Project thanks to the financial support of The George Lucas Family Foundation, The Film Foundation and The Material World Charitable Foundation.
Restoration work was carried out at L'Immagine Ritrovata laboratory in 2013.
Die Kur (1917) has been restored by Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna and Lobster Films, from a nitrate dupe negative preserved at Cinémathèque Royale de Belgique.
One fragment was added from a safety fine grain preserved at the Cinémathèque française.
Intertitles have been reconstructed according to the original Mutual Film titles and documents of the Library of Congress.
The surviving elements come from two different negatives. Negative A was restored whenever possible while negative B was used to reconstruct missing or severely damaged shots.
Die Kur (1917) has been restored by Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna and Lobster Films, from a nitrate dupe negative preserved at Cinémathèque Royale de Belgique.
One fragment was added from a safety fine grain preserved at the Cinémathèque française.
Intertitles have been reconstructed according to the original Mutual Film titles and documents of the Library of Congress.
The surviving elements come from two different negatives. Negative A was restored whenever possible while negative B was used to reconstruct missing or severely damaged shots.