This film was the last Hollywood film produced and released in two-strip
Technicolor and the last silent film produced in Hollywood.
The film was beautifully filmed in Bali, and has a musical soundtrack
with
titles (no dialogue).
Legong was produced by Bennett Productions, and originally released by
Paramount International (outside the US only) due to concerns about brief
female nudity in the film.
However, later in the 30's the film apparently showed up in various
mutilated versions in so-called "grind houses" in New York City under
various lurid titles.
The UCLA Film and Television Archive restored Legong in 1999, using
prints
from the US, Canada, and the UK. The Archive plans to restore one other
two-strip Techicolor film, Kliou the Killer Whale, also directed by Henri
de
la Falaise and released by Bennett Productions.