Filming Locations

In an interview with Monte Blue in the Los Angeles Times (May 27,1928) He admitted that he had a dismal time while filming in Tahiti. This interview apparently occured while filming at the Franklin Canyon Reservoir in the Santa Monica Mountains near Beverly Hills, where they crew was using the reservoir as a "Tahiti" like backdrop for the final sequences of the film. What I find amusing is that this same Franklin Canyon Reservoir, was used in the original series Star Trek episode "The Paradise Syndrome", wherein McCoy references "Tahiti Syndrome...as a 20th century expression used to describe a longing that was common in overpressured leaders for a remote, beautiful, and idyllic environment into which they could escape." To which a real 20th century man found it "torrid and tiresome."
Franklin Canyon Reservoir was made into a park in the 1980's.