One of the 50 films in the three-disk boxed DVD set called "More Treasures from American Film Archives, 1894-1931" (2004), compiled by the National Film Preservation Foundation from five American film archives. This film is preserved by the Museum of Modern Art, has a running time of 89 minutes and an added piano music score.
Voted one of the New York Times' 10 Best Films of 1925.
Reportedly Jack L. Warner complained loudly that the horses in the racing scene were running the wrong way around the race course. Ernst Lubitsch had to inform him that as a film set in Britain, race horses run clockwise.
The play opened in London in 1892, and on Broadway in New York City on 5 February 1893. There were three Broadway revivals, the last in 1946.
Following the successful telecasts of Othello (1922) and The Eagle (1925), New York City's WJZ (Channel 7), began a series of silent film feature presentations, shown more or less in their entirety, which aired intermittently for the next twelve months. This feature was initially broadcast as part of this series Thursday 27 January 1949 in both New York City on WJZ (Channel 7) and in Washington DC on WMAL (Channel 7).