[6] In England, Ralph Frawley is arrested for rabbit poaching and transported to Van Diemen's Land as a convict.

Producers Stanley Crick and Herb Finlay agreed to finance a film with Gavin of which Assigned Servant was the first.

[13] During the shoot, two actors injured themselves during a scene where they fought on top of a cliff and fell twenty feet below into the water.

"[12] He said in another interview the film "was played on thirteen different occasions by Tom Howe and was alw'ays a good stand by whenever he was short of a picture.

"[18] Gavin went on to make three more films for Crick and Finlay, Ben Hall, Frank Gardiner and Keane of Kalgoorlie.

"[12] The Sydney Truth called the film "a splendid example of the art of producing a photo-play... which em braces sensational doings in early Australian days.