[citation needed] It was shot in two sessions in the spring and late summer 1917, with Åre and Abisko in northern Sweden acting as the highlands of Iceland.

When the bailiff returns with others to arrest Eyvind, he and Halla abandon the farm for the bare, cold highlands, where they live for many happy years.

As he is walking away, he sees a group of men approaching and runs back to warn Eyvind and Halla.

The Outlaw and His Wife is also infused with a kind of pantheism and puritanical morality that came to mark Swedish cinema.

As social renegades the lovers feel their transgressions are subject to the laws of an indifferent universe and when cornered by their pursuers, Halla makes a personal sacrifice that reflects an Old Testament sense of vindication... Film critic David Thomson noted a recurring quality in Sjöström's best work of "wild feelings bursting through moral and social inhibition" and that is an apt summation of the universe of The Outlaw and His Wife where passion and intolerance coexist.