This is the only "speaking" role of Harpo Marx in his entire cinema career. Alas, being this a silent movie, his line ("You sure you can't move?") appeared written on the screen.
The $40,000 Richard Gaylord, Sr. pays his son's jilted girlfriend would be equivalent to more than $715,000 in 2024.
This film is notable for being the earliest surviving film to feature Harpo Marx of the The Marx Brothers. Along with Noivas de Tio Sam (1943), it is one of only two films in which he appears without his brothers. (His youngest brother Zeppo Marx starred in the similarly titled A Kiss in the Dark (1925), released three months later). Harpo plays the Village Peter Pan, a half-wit, and technically has speaking lines (albeit not heard, because this is a silent film) for the first and last time in his career.
Actor Joe Burke, playing the amusing character Simmons who accompanied Richard on his trip to Basque territory, was also a composer and pianist of note. One of his successful songs included "Tiptoe Through the Tulips" (1929), made famous some 40 years later by singer Tiny Tim, who sang it on the popular American television show Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In on February 5, 1968.
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