This film was nominated for a Best Picture Oscar for 1929 and since no complete print of the film seems to have survived, it has the (unfortunate) distinction of being the only film nominated for Best Picture to have been lost.
It was the only silent film nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture of 1928. It was the last silent movie to receive that nomination until The Artist (2011) won in 2012.
A single reel survives in the Portuguese Film Archive and has been preserved.
Although this film is presumed lost, excerpts do survive, including a trailer, which is one of the 50 films in the 3-disk boxed DVD set called "More Treasures from American Film Archives, 1894-1931" (2004), compiled by the National Film Preservation Foundation from 5 American film archives. It is preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive and has a running time of 3 minutes.
Footage from this film was incorporated by Josef Von Sternberg in the 1934 film The Scarlet Empress about Catherine the Great, chiefly the impressive, external crowd scenes. It is easy to spot these sequences because they are clearly speeded up, as a result of being shot at a lower speed to a sound film.