In an article that appeared in the Jun 1924 AmCin, chief cinematographer Robert Kurrle claimed he spent five weeks on the Sahara Desert in Algeria, North Africa, where he and his assistant cameraman, Al Greene, "filmed 70,000 feet of negative." They used two Bell & Howell cameras, six reflectors, and a mirror. Each night, Greene took both cameras apart and cleaned sand out of them for the next day's shooting. At one point the production hunkered down during a three-day sandstorm. After filming for three days in Biskra, Algeria, the company spent four days in Touggourt, Algeria, a settlement next to an oasis. Then they returned to Biskra for three weeks. After an essential garden scene was shot in Algiers, the production moved to the Algerian fort town of El Kantara. Without benefit of dailies, Kurrle did not see his footage until he had completed filming and was finishing the production at the Eclair Studios at Epinay-sur-Seine, France, fifteen miles out of Paris. He lauded the cooperation of the French Algerian government, which, among other things, helped director Edwin Carewe gather 500 camels and 300 Arabs riding Arabian horses. At Sidi Okba, Algeria, the company used 6,000 Arab extras. Actor Bert Lytell was unable to perform for two weeks because of "African fever," and the actor's loss of twenty pounds made continuity difficult. At the Eclair Studios, interiors were filmed on a small, ninety-by-forty-feet stage. The schedule was so crowded there that the cast and crew filmed 3,000 feet of film on the last day, before leaving Paris for the U.S.
       Actress Claire Windsor wrote a "letter from location" for the May 1924 Picture-Play, describing the places she visited in Algeria, including Algiers, then Biskra and Touggourt (a day's journey from Biskra by narrow-gauge train).