This film was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress in 1991. It was the first "race film" to be so chosen.
The film was so successful that Spencer Williams was offered a ten-year contract by producer Alfred N. Sack to produce eight more films with his company.
Considered to be a "lost" film for decades before being discovered in a warehouse in Tyler, Texas in the 1980s.
As of January 2023, the Wikipedia entry for this film incorrectly links James B. Jones, the actor who portrays Satan, to James B. Jones, a lieutenant governor of New Mexico who served around the same time the film was released.