Universal's first all-talkie sound feature.
This film is believed lost.
Historically significant as Universal's first 100% talkie, the production suffered from having a tight shooting schedule. Carl Laemmle was only able to rent Fox's Movietone recording system for one week.
A Jewel Production. Universal, lacking its own theater chain, devised a 3-tiered branding system to target independent theater owners: Red Feather (low budget programmers), Bluebird (mainstream releases) and Jewel (prestige pictures made to command higher roadshow ticket prices). The studio would end this marketing system in late 1929.
This is not just Universal's first all talking picture, but also the very first all talking sound-on-film feature ever released. Universal borrowed Fox's Movietone equipment for this film and released it 2-1/2 months before Fox released their first all talking sound-on-film feature "In Old Arizona".