The failure of the original copyright holder to renew the film's copyright resulted in it falling into public domain, meaning that virtually anyone could duplicate and sell a VHS/DVD copy of the film. Therefore, many of the versions of this film available on the market are either severely (and usually badly) edited and/or of extremely poor quality, having been duped from second- or third-generation (or more) copies of the film.
Sergeant Blair recounts a story from book he has read about a sailor lost at sea and remembers its title as called "Enoch Arden". "Enoch Arden" is not a book, but a poem written by Alfred Lord Tennyson.