Ambrose Applejohn's Adventure

After being retitled Ambrose Applejohn's Adventure, it made its West End debut at the Criterion Theatre on 19 July 1921.

In 1922 the play made its first appearance in Australia, opening at the Criterion Theatre in Sydney on 2 September 1922, with Lawrence Grossmith starring as Applejohn.

[3] The characters and cast from the West End and Broadway productions are given below: A reviewer for The Spectator "thoroughly enjoyed" the play, despite criticizing it as "silly" and "loosely put together".

[4] In 1923, Louis B. Mayer produced an adaptation of the play as a silent film, titled Strangers of the Night, directed by Fred Niblo, and which starred Matt Moore, Enid Bennett, and Barbara La Marr.

In 1933, R. P. Weston and Bert Lee created a stage musical, He Wanted Adventure, based on Hackett's play.

The play debuted at London's Criterion Theatre in 1921.
Black and white portrait of a white man standing in formal clothes.
Charles Hawtrey produced and starred in the West End production.
Black and white portrait of a white woman wearing a fur-trimmed coat.
Hilda Moore played Anna Valeska in the West End production.