John finds out the truth, and the two men argue, with Blackie eventually falling off a cliff to his death.

Metro Pictures acquired the rights to the play, The Claim, written by Charles Kenyon and Frank Dare in December 1917 as a starring vehicle for Edith Storey.

[4] The film was under production by mid-February, when it was revealed that the cast included, in addition to Storey, Malatesta and Anderson, Wheeler Oakman, Marion Skinner, Paul Weigel.

June Mathis and Leighton Osmun had been given the duties to adapt the play into a screenplay, and William C. Thompson was assigned as cinematographer.

While watching a scene between two other actors fighting along a cliff, Storey inadvertently back up to the point where she was in danger of falling to her death.

The director noticed she was in danger, but was reticent to call out to her, afraid that she might take that fateful step back, plunging her over the cliff.