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.At Mickey""s closed-down and darkened gym, he happened to meet up with Apollo Creed (sent by Adrian from his house to find him there), who proposed a "business" proposition - to help train him for a rematch against Lang, with a different style of training.I""ve tried ""em all, I really have.And he only church that truly feeds the soul - day in, day out, is he Church of Baseball."[Note: Annie""s last name ""Savoy"" made plain that she was a feminine ""savior"" figure, imparting knowledge ("life wisdom") o the male ballplayers to "expand their minds" and feed their souls hrough literature, poetry, holistic thinking and metaphysics.Jack was unable to convince Blackbeard of Angelica""s duplicity, and he was forced to reconsider his position o help lead Blackbeard to the Fountain, to aid his quest on the "hell-bound vessel" before the captain""s prophesied death." He would use it to create artificial life: "a being who""s more powerful than him, with total allegiance to me.