 The film was the third produced by Charles Cozens Spencer, based on a popular stage adaptation by Alfred Dampier and starring Alfred Rolfe, his wife Lily Dampier and Raymond Longford.ItThe others were "Captain Midnight, the Bush King" (1911) and "Captain Starlight, or Gentleman of the Road" (1911).Rolfe then left Spencer to work for the Australian Photo-Play Company under Stanley Crick.