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The movie cost about $1 million to produce, including "great sums spent to make sanitary a mosquito-cursed section of Jamaica," according to a contemporary report. The sets consumed 2,500 barrels of plaster and 500 of cement, 2 million feet of lumber, and 10 tons of paper. Director Herbert Brenon employed 20,000 people and shot 44 miles of film during 8 months of production.
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Studio head William Fox was incensed at the cost and removed Brenon's name from the film. Brenon sued over this, and won.
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In 1917 an enterprising film processor from Chicago created his own version of the film, which he called Charles Chaplin comedies with scenes of the nude Miss Kellerman. The new film was a hit among the underground trade.
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