Spencer imported the key creative talent: Stanley Twist and Nell Shipman were from Hollywood and Alexander Butler was established in British cinema.
[9] Butler had previously worked in Australia directing plays for J. C. Williamsons Ltd.[10][11][12][13] The actors were well established Australian stage performers.
[16] Raymond Longford was critical of the amount of time Butler spent filming, and said this caused the budget to increase.
[17] A critic from a Dubbo newspaper stated that the film: Has done a deal of harm by representing to the untravelled young Sydneyites that the interior of the State is a vast, barren wilderness, where dust storms rage which bury man and beast, and have all the stifling and suffocating and poisonous effects of the African Simoom.
This led to them abandoning feature film production and Spencer resigned from the company he had helped establish.