It was the first of several films he made with the husband and wife team of director Wilfred Lucas and writer Bess Meredyth, both of whom had been imported from Hollywood by E. J.

Harland earns the ire of parishioners by teaching young boys to box, and Giles manipulates local opinion to have the bishop remove him.

Harland rescues a gentleman from a mugging in Sydney who suggests that he go to Kalmaroo where a criminal gang has driven the church out of the area.

Baker visited Hollywood in 1918 to shoot additional scenes for his second feature, The Lure of the Bush, and to study production methods.

[8] Carroll-Baker Productions was formed in 1919 with a capital of £25,000 between E. J. Carroll, his brother Dan, Snowy Baker and the Southern Cross Feature Film Company.

Said Dan Carroll at the time: It Is not our intention to make any one subject which will not be of such a standard that it cannot be market ed in every English-speaking country in the world.

The film was shot on location in Kangaroo Valley and Gunnedah, with interiors at the Theatre Royal in Sydney during September and October 1919.

It is when he throws aside his “cloth” and adopts the role of bushman that he shines, and then indeed, does he perform some amazing stunts of which even the redoubtable “Doug.” would be proud...The story, from a dramatic point of view, lacks interest, it being obvious that the plot has been woven with a view to giving the star full rein to exhibit his equestrian abilities, and this rather destroys the possibilities for the romantic element, so satisfying to the public taste.