A colossal flop, the film lost nearly $350,000, an astronomical amount of money in the early 1930s. As a result, the story of the Geste family was considered such a financial risk that producers weren't sure that making Beau Geste (1939) eight years later was a good idea.
The studio cast fifty "race extras" as Foreign Legion Soldiers in this film, according to an October 24, 1930, anecdote in the California Eagle.
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