The Bondman is an American silent film directed by Edgar Lewis and starring William Farnum, L. O. Hart and Dorothy Bernard.

In filming the story he was shown at work as a convict in the sulphur mines where prison guards forced him to drive his pick into a thin crust of volcanic earth resulting in flames and smoke shooting up into the air.

[4] Austrian born Max Steiner was a child prodigy, studying composition with Mahler and composing music performed by the Vienna Philharmonic.

After travelling to America seventeen year old Steiner became Fox Film's musical director in 1915.

[5] At the time there was no specially written music for films and Steiner told William Fox his idea to write an original score for The Bondman.