Because of a protest from the Japanese Association of Southern California, Sessue Hayakawa's name and nationality was changed for the 1918 re-release. Originally he was a Japanese called Hishuru Tori; in the re-issue he was a Burmese called Haka Arakau.
Camille Erlanger's "La Forfaiture", based on this movie, was the first opera written which was based on a motion picture.
The surviving copy is from the 1918 re-release, and so the date on the check and the date in the newspaper have been altered from 1915 to 1918 in an attempt to make it seem like a contemporary film.
This film was selected to the National Film Registry, Library of Congress, in 1993.