Early working titles for the film includedLucky StrikeandThe Northern Story.The film, inspired in part by the gruesome Donner Party story, was shot (over a period of 15 months from spring 1924-summer 1925) both on a Hollywood studio back lot and in Truckee, California/Nevada, and premiered in New York at the Strand Theatre in mid-August, 1925.He asserted that he had dealt with this same problem four years earlier:"We can handle this.We stopped him before....We don""t say his name outloud."Now that the curfew was in effect, the group of surviving eens from the rave, including Lori, Will, Kia, and Charlie, were in the basement of pothead Bill Freeburg""s house, fearing that Freddy could still get them: "It was our fear that gave him his power, we""re marked now," noted Will." [Sidney stands before a bulletin board plastered with past clippings from Hunsecker""s column.]Snapping back, Robard tells the deceitful Falco that he has failed as both apersonaland professional liar:Oh, it""s a publicity man""s nature to be a liar." Miles concurred that Cosell""s video functioned as a torture device: "Yes, hat""s exactly what that was.Also, Elvis was an obvious replacement for the dethroned crooner Frank Sinatra, and other more mainstream stars such as Pat Boone.