The film was banned in New South Wales, Australia. This had little to do with the film's content, but was at the behest of a powerful "Combine" of distributors keen to suppress local product in favour of US imports.
This was the first feature film production of the South Australian Film Production Company, Southern Cross Feature Films.
The film was lost for over half a century. In February 1983, Michael Cordell of the Australian National Film & Sound Archive (NFSA, now Screensound Australia) discovered a decaying print in Adelaide, South Australia. The film was in a collection owned by Murray Matthews who did not know that the film was a missing film of the Australian Silent Cinema. Cordell was a Field Officer employed within the NFSA's "Lost Film Search" Programme.
Often described as "Australia's first feminist feature film".
Director Raymond Longford, star Lottie Lyell and photographer (cinematographer) Arthur Higgins all lived at the Oriental Hotel on the corner of Rundle Street and Gawler Place in Adelaide whilst they were making this silent film.