It is a convict-era melodrama made by the husband-and-wife team of John and Agnes Gavin.

[4] The movie broke into the following chapters: Gaving had made four films in association with Stanley Crick and Herbert Finlay: The Assigned Servant, Ben Hall, Frank Gardiner and Keane of Kalgoorlie.

The success of his enabled Crick to set up the Australian Photoplay Company who made The Mark of the Lash.

[4] Gavin wrote "I did not favour the idea particularly, as they were introducing two more producers, and I did not think the time was quite ripe for such expansion.

As it was, we were all making good money, but the extra people coming in would make the overhead absorb all this; so I pulled out and received a cash price for a parcel of shares, sold out my interest in the four films I had made, and started out on my own as the John F. Gavin Productions.