The failure of the original copyright holder to renew the film's copyright resulted in it falling into public domain, meaning that virtually anyone could duplicate and sell a VHS/DVD copy of the film. Therefore, many of the versions of this film available on the market are either severely (and usually badly) edited and/or of extremely poor quality, having been duped from second- or third-generation (or more) copies of the film.
Both Johnny Weissmuller and Buster Crabbe are prominently featured on the poster bare-chested, and publicity material also survives that shows them, also bare-chested, in an arm-wrestling sequence; but in the surviving commonly marketed public domain version, such scenes never occur, and have apparently been carefully edited out.