- A Stirring Tale of Love and Hate in the Searing Sands of Northern Africa!
- The gripping drama of an eminent surgeon who escaped from a living death to fame and favor, but whose grim past cast its shadow before him at every turn on the road to happiness. Amazingly different. Intensely exciting. Beautifully romantic.
- Conrad Veidt of "Caligari" fame in his first American Picture.
- From the Famous Stage Play "DIPLOMA." The Gripping Drama of an Eminent Surgeon Who Escaped a Living Death to- Amazingly Different! Intensely Exciting! Beautifully Romantic! (Print Ad- Prescott Evening Courier, ((Prescott, Ariz.)) 22 September 1928)
- Germany's Greatest Character Artist in His First Spectacular American Production (Print Ad-Providence News, ((Providence RI)) 12 November 1927)
- Was it all for nothing- his escape- his deception in posing as his own dearest friend- his immense accumulation of wealth? Must all be cast away and must he return to the cold, lightless dungeon that had crushed every human impulse from his heart? For he loved the girl supposed to be his sister- and to marry her meant discovery. What suspense. What thrills. Tragedy. It will make your heart beat in a whisper! (Print Ad-Nashua Telegraph, ((Nashua, NH)) 30 January 1928)
- Ten years of the living death behind the grim walls of France's St. Noir where human lives are like the blind mules of the coal mines. (Print Ad- Camden Herald, ((Camden, Me.)) 13 September 1928)
- THE gripping drama of an eminent surgeon who escaped from a living death to fame and favor, but whose grim past cast its shadow before him at every turn on the road to happiness. (Print Ad-Daily Reporter, ((White Plains, NY)) 6 April 1928)
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