This film, along with Amos 'n' Andy's "Check and Double Check (1930)," were the most successful of "RKO"'s 1930 productions.
When Addington holds up the newspaper with the headline "McKinley Elected by 500,000 Majority", that would date the paper to November 1896.
This film was a success at the box office, earning "RKO" a profit of $225,000 ($3.36M in 2019) according to studio records.
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.