It was directed by James Kirkwood and stars Mary Pickford, at the time working for Adolph Zukor and Daniel Frohman.

A previous film version of the story was released in 1912 by IMP (later Universal Pictures) and directed by Herbert Brenon.

[3] The organizations partnered with The Mary Pickford Foundation and hired L’ Immagine Ritrovata Laboratory of Bologna, Italy to photochemically and digitally restore the film to 4k high definition.

The missing English intertitles were reconstructed by translating the French versions found on the dupe.

The Pickford foundation also commissioned a new score to accompany the reconstructed film (released in 2018), which was composed by Julian Ducatenzeiler and Andy Gladbach.