While the film has no audible dialog, it was released with a synchronized musical score with sound effects using both the sound-on-disc and sound-on-film process.
The film was directed by George Banfield and starring John Martin Harvey, Fern Andra and Robert Andrews.
It was based on the 1918 play Le Bourgmestre de Stilmonde by Maurice Maeterlinck.
Like the play, it portrays German atrocities during the First World War occupation of Belgium.
[3] The film featured a theme song entitled "As The Sun Goes Down" which was composed by Pat Heale and Fred Elizalde.