The film had a special revival screening at the Sydney Film Festival in 1955 at the University of Sydney.
The film had a revival screening out of competition at the Cannes Film Festival in 1987.
A fully restored version was released in 2004 by the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia.
At first officials refused permission to use authentic police uniforms in this film, but eventually Commonwealth Dockside officials relented, and some even appeared in the film as police officers.
C.J. Dennis: Source verse novelist C.J. Dennis, author of "The Sentimental Bloke" (1915), appeared in the film as himself.