The film included a 10 minute intermission during which music was played.
In advance of the feature, a separately filmed trailer, Vitaphone production reel #2812, was released, featuring John Boles who describes the story and introduces the other cast members to the audience.
306 feet of 2-strip Technicolor footage, depicting the Red Shadow and his Arab horsemen riding across windswept sand dunes, opened the film in 1929, but now only survives in B&W.
Vitaphone production reels #3141-3154; the overture was released on a separate disc, Vitaphone production reel #2930.
The original stage version of "The Desert Song" opened at the Casino Theatre on November 30, 1926 and ran for 471 performances.
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