While Alan Crosland, the American filmmaker, was directing "Under the Red Robe" in Stamford, Connecticut, a German actor, Guster von Seyffertitz, was to play the role of a condemned man, flogged in a public square, for the needs of the film. At the moment when the torture had just begun, recorded by the cameras, a passing motorist, imagining that he was witnessing a real lynching, could not contain his indignation and drew his revolver to oppose the execution.
It took a long discussion to convince this good Samaritan that this execution was only figurative, and it was only when the tortured man himself asked him to withdraw that he consented, albeit reluctantly, to return to his car and drive away.

Regarding this new production, let us also say that spectators in French theaters where this film will be screened soon will have another source of documentary interest. The costumes worn by Alma Rubens and Mary MacLaren in the roles of Queen Anne and Marie de Medici were, in fact, scrupulously copied from portraits by painters of that time.
These dresses, decorated with real ermine, were specially embroidered in the south of France and represent a small fortune.
$1,500,000 was spent on the making of this film, in which, in some scenes, thousands of extras move around, dressed in sumptuous court costumes.
How can French film struggle with such expenses?