Ethel Barrymore makes her acting debut in this feature film, which Thomas wrote specifically for her.

Thomas, famed as a Broadway playwright, was the best friend of Barrymore's father Maurice, and had known the actress since she was a child.

Fitch had died in 1909, and Charles Frohman, Barrymore's theatrical employer, owned the rights to Captain Jinks.

This was common practice in the silent era to make a write-around story for popular works for which screen rights could not be obtained.

A screen version of Fitch's Captain Jinks was later made with Ann Murdock.