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.The scene was shot from outside in a frame split by the wall between them, when they discussed how uncomfortable and restless they were, and Joe finally admitted: "I love you Connie," and she responded likewise: "I love you more than anything in the world.He pushed the Moon out of its orbit, placing it directly in front of the Sun, causing an artificial eclipse to create a giant shadow in order to render "Nuclear Man" powerless without the Sun""s rays.The attacks are mysteriously related to the mother and son relationship in the film - anger (and fears of abandonment or being left lonely) of the jealous, initially hostile mother come o the surface when her bachelor son brings home an attractive young woman." She runs out to her balcony overlooking the Mediterranean to yell for police.To emphasize the motif of a stealthy, prowling jewel thief (cat burglar) hat has committed the crime, a black cat crosses a slatted, tiled rooftop at night.