Produced by the Biograph Company and directed by D. W. Griffith, the drama's cast includes Arthur V. Johnson, Marion Leonard, Henry B. Walthall, Mary Pickford, and Mack Sennett.
It was distributed to theaters on a split-reel with another film, the three-minute comedy short The Little Darling.
The film's theme of immurement draws inspiration from Balzac's "La Grande Bretêche",[2] and Edgar Allan Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado".
The king constructs a cozy, windowless love-nest for himself and his concubine.
With the faithless duo still inside, the masons use stone and mortar to quietly seal the only door to the vault.