Two transported convicts, George Worrall and Frederick Fisher, are released and take up farms at Campbelltown.

In 1826, a settler called Farley sees an apparition who purports to be Fisher sitting on a three rail fence.

[6][7] Raymond Longford and Lottie Lyell, in association with Charles Perry, formed a new company together: Longford-Lyell Productions.

[9][10] According to on contemporary account the film was shot on location in Campbelltown under the title The Life and Death of Frederick Fisher.

Longford sought the advice of Campbelltown residents and also explored the records on the subject from the local Mitchell Library.

"[15] It transferred to the Shell Theatre in Pitt Street, "and the very consistent sup-port given the picture since that day is further proof that its success... was no mere fluke.