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.Bannion leaves his wife (who has invited guests for dinner) and drives to Lagana""s stately, two-story palatial mansion." In her bedroom (under a Charles Manson poster), Laurie again awoke from a nightmare - one that mirrored Michael""s." Fortunately, the Order of the Phoenix members, led by Sirius Black, appeared and battled against the Death Eaters - but the sphere dropped from Lucius"" hands and broke.