While the film has no audible dialog, it was released with a synchronized musical score with sound effects using the sound-on-disc Vitaphone process.

The film stars Larry Kent and Thelma Todd and is based on Owen Davis's 1926 Broadway play of the same name.

After his success in Europe with his 1922 film Haxan, director Christensen relocated to Hollywood in 1926, where he directed Thelma Todd in The Devil's Circus who would appear again in The Haunted House.

[1] Variety also noted that the synchronization of the songs was "badly handled, with the player and the sound always out of kilter and neither starting out for finishing together.

[1] From contemporary reviews, Variety felt the film "played legitimately and with no attempt to get a tongue-in-the cheek laugh.