Ringling Brothers circus giant Cardiff Giant (aka George Auger) was contracted to play the role of Colosso, but died shortly after filming began. A nationwide publicity campaign was instituted to find a replacement. Norwegian John Aasen, living in Minnesota, was discovered as a result of a newspaper article about his shoe size.
Harold Lloyd's first film with leading lady Jobyna Ralston. She was picked primarily because Lloyd wanted somebody who was exactly the opposite of his previous leading lady, Mildred Davis, who had by then retired from films to become Mrs. Harold Lloyd.
Harold and his nurse are shown to be boarding the liner "Harvard" for Paradiso. "Harvard" and sister ship "Yale" made regular runs from Los Angeles to San Francisco as part of the Los Angeles Steamship Company. The SS Harvard was completed and entered service in 1907 at Chester, Pennsylvania for the Metropolitan Steamship Company. She was commandeered by the U.S. Navy in 1918 for service in WW1 and later renamed USS Charles (ID-1298). She served mainly as a troopship between the UK and France until 1919. She was decommissioned in 1920 and sold to the Los Angeles Steamship Company. After an $8M refit, she began luxury passenger service between Los Angeles and San Francisco. On 30 May 1931 she ran aground and was wrecked of Point Arguello, California - what is now part of Vandenberg Air Force Base.
Last film of Harold Lloyd's at Hal Roach Studios. The split was announced in the trade papers at the end of production of this film. There was no animosity between the two men, it was just Lloyd now had enough money to fund his own productions.