Trivia

The film set a permanent attendance record at New York's Roxy Theater

F.W. Murnau's city sets from L'aurore (1927) were re-used for the New York sequences.

For the sinewy role of Major von Stomm, Photoplay Magazine reported that Earle Foxe lost 15 pounds, wore a corset, and had to have his head shaved.

When the cruel Major gets off the train with his monocle, there is a close-up of a reaction shot of another man with a monocle wearing a helmet, yet that man was not in the previous master shot, a real editing faux pas which disorients the observer. Mistakes like this show that often in the Twenties, the director had no input into the editing process, even a master auteur like John Ford.

There is a town called Burgendorf in Saxony but not in Bavaria.