[6] Henri Santados (Lon Chaney) is an insane sculptor living in Paris and working in a wax museum owned by Father Marionette (Jack MacDonald).
Meanwhile, O'Keefe's father (Hardee Kirkland), who strenuously objects to the relationship, convinces Bebe to stay away from his son for his own good.
A friend of O'Keefe's, Georges Morier (J. Farrell MacDonald), manages to rescue him in time and rush him to the hospital.
[7] Tourneur shot the film in 1920 under the title The Glory of Love, but perhaps due to its gruesome nature, he was not able to get it released for three years.
Gilbert later became engaged to Greta Garbo, and drifted off into a string of big budget Hollywood romantic drama films, before dying in 1936 from heart failure.
- Moving Picture World "This feature looks as though it was an old boy that had been lying around for some little time, finally patched up and released to salvage whatever could be got from it.
It has all the appearances of a picture that might have been made three or four years ago...Lon Chaney plays the heavy and from the role it is quite evident it must have been shot long before the day he started starring.
- Variety "It is quite apparent that Tourneur made this picture before Chaney came to the fore as a "man of a thousand faces" - Film Daily