This romantic melodrama, set in Paris and shot partly at the Casino de Paris, involves a young scion who becomes infatuated with the Moulin Rouge star whose daughter he is about to marry. Director E. A. Dupont made some 30 films (including Variety) in Germany before moving to Great Britain in 1927. William K. Everson has observed, “One can hardly find a more efficient illustration of the almost total domination of the best British late silents by German talent. The setting is European; the director, crew and cast are all largely German. There is not a frame of the film which suggests in any way that it is British. Slow, methodical, self-indulgent, it parallels exactly the best of the European and American films of that period that were making a dramatic last stand for the silent film, showing exactly what it could do as an art form, without worrying in the slightest about box-office response.... The musical score appears to have been added for the U.S. release and utilized recognizable themes from Sunrise and other American late silents of the same period.”