 Made as a silent during a time when Carl Laemmle (qv) couldnt  beg, borrow or steal enough of Foxs Movietone recording equipment.  Throughout 1928 and 1929 Universal rented the systems as often as  they could, but was left in a position where they had to choose  scripts that could be shot within a week as 100% talkies or take  longer production times on higher quality material to be released as  silents or part