- Director Erich von Stroheim never completed the film: the ending is made using stills and subtitles. The European version has a different storyline than the American one.
- In 1985, Kino International released a restored version of the film, based on Erich von Stroheim's original concept, using material from various sources, including stills and additional titles as needed to roughly complete the movie. The restoration was done by Dennis Doros with a music score compiled by Robert Cardelli of Phantasmagoria, and runs 101 minutes.
- The video version released by Force Video in Australia, has a different ending than the Kino version - this involves several scenes not in the Kino version at all. In the Force version, the Queen is seen dictating a letter to the imprisoned prince, after Kelly throws herself into the river. The letter outlines some terms for his release. We then go to the prison cell, and the scene between the prince and his friend is the same as the Kino version. In both versions the friend evidently hears a noise and leaves. In the Kino version he never returns, but in the Force version he returns with the letter from the queen. We learn that the conditions of his release are that he marry Kelly immediately, and consummate the marriage within 24 hours. He then rushes off to the convent to see Kelly. The scene with the Mother Superior is in both versions, but in the Kino version she tells the prince that Kelly has gone to Africa. In the Force version she leads him into the chapel, where Kelly's body is lying in state. She has drowned. The prince cries over the body and then begins to draw his sword, with the obvious intention of killing himself. The movie then ends.
- In the Force Video version the conditions of the Queen's letter are that the Prince must consummate the marriage to Kelly before the next sundown, or he must marry the Queen. This suggests that the Queen knows of Kelly's death. The additional scenes complete the European portion of the film's plot, and were probably filmed in the two days that the cast and crew re-convened under the direction of Richard Boleslawski, seven months after Von Stroheim was sacked. In her autobiography, however, Swanson claims that these two days were spent trying to turn the movie into a musical!
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