A nitrate print of this film, once thought lost, has been discovered and restored. Approximately the first two-thirds is still lost and has been fleshed out with stills. The restored film had its American television debut on Turner Classic Movies on May 21, 2006.
The full title of the play was "Amos Judd; a Play in a Prologue and Four Acts," by Alethea Luce. It was copyrighted on 26 July 1919, but had no Broadway productions.
Rudolph Valentino was 27 years old when this film was released in 1922. In the film, Valentino's character, Amos Judd, has the "gift of prophecy" and premonitions of future events. At one point in the film he asks his fiancée, Molly, to "set the date for our wedding--but make it soon or--I'll die of heart failure." Molly leans down to pick up a calendar that is open on the month of August. In real life Valentino died, just four years later, ironically in August, but not of heart failure; he died of inflammation of his left lung.
Rudolph Valentino 's full name is: Rodolfo Alfonso Raffaello Pierre Filibert Guglielmi di Valentina d'Antonguolla.
Before the release of this film Rudolph Valentino would marry Natacha Rambova, its costume designer. Unfortunately, the divorce from his first wife was not yet finalized, so he was arrested on a charge of bigamy and thrown in jail. The studio refused to post his bail. Instead, he had to rely on a group of friends to bail him out.