This is the only "speaking" role of Harpo Marx in his entire cinema career. Alas, being this a silent movie, his line ("You sure you can't move?") appeared written on the screen.
The $40,000 Richard Gaylord, Sr. pays his son's jilted girlfriend would be equivalent to more than $715,000 in 2024.
This film is notable for being the earliest surviving film to feature Harpo Marx of the The Marx Brothers. Along with Stage Door Canteen (1943), it is one of only two films in which he appears without his brothers. (His youngest brother Zeppo Marx starred in the similarly titled A Kiss in the Dark (1925), released three months later). Harpo plays the Village Peter Pan, a half-wit, and technically has speaking lines (albeit not heard, because this is a silent film) for the first and last time in his career.
The Farandole is one of the oldest traditional dances in France, common in the Provence region. It is an 'open-chain' type of dance whereby people hold hands, form a line and skip on every beat. The accompanying music is typically played with drums, tambourines and galoubets, the latter being high-pitched wood pipes which were a precursor to modern-day tin whistles. The dance is simple enough so that children can often join in.