Three years after this film was released, the Motion Picture Production Code forbade similar films in which a white man and a woman of color engaged in implied sexual conduct, aka "miscegenation".
The native village huts were later reused for the inhabitants of Skull Island in RKO's classic King Kong (1933).
Dolores Del Río appears nude in the underwater love scene. All that can be seen is her exposed butt and a brief glimpse of side breast; her front side is hidden in shadows.