One of the 50 films in the three-disk boxed DVD set called "More Treasures from American Film Archives, 1894-1931" (2004), compiled by the National Film Preservation Foundation from five American film archives. This film is preserved by the Museum of Modern Art, has a running time of 89 minutes and an added piano music score.
Voted one of the New York Times' 10 Best Films of 1925.
Reportedly Jack L. Warner complained loudly that the horses in the racing scene were running the wrong way around the race course. Ernst Lubitsch had to inform him that as a film set in Britain, race horses run clockwise.
The play opened in London in 1892, and on Broadway in New York City on 5 February 1893. There were three Broadway revivals, the last in 1946.
On 28 March 2008, composer Yati Durant premiered a new score for clarinet, piano, string quartet and electronics at the Cologne Philharmonic in Cologne, Germany. The composition was commissioned by the Cologne Philharmonic and the U.S. Consulate General.