 Much of the music was cut and the film began to be advertised as a spy war drama.As a cost-savings measure, it was decided to release the film in black and white as color had come to be associated with musicals.The film was to have been the first of three of musicals to be written by Otto A. Harbach and Jerome Kern for Warner Bros. Due to the public apathy for musicals, however, Warner Bros. bought out their contract and the team returned to Broadway.