This was silent-picture star Albert Gran's last film; he died in an auto accident after the film was finished, but before it was released. Ironically, in the film's final sequence he and Warren William are racing through the streets of Manhattan in a taxicab to a Board of Directors meeting, but they arrive safely and without incident.
The pristine print quality is due to the good fortune that the Library of Congress possesses the original camera negative.
This film was released 12 days after Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany. Anderson says that a German-made toy would sell better if the Made in Germany label were torn off and replaced with a Made in Japan label.
Prohibition ended on December 5, 1933, but the movie was released in February 1933, 10 months before alcohol consumption was legal again. Despite this, the characters openly consume alcohol.