It was a filmed version of a play by Dion Boucicault which Thring had produced on stage the previous year.

After learning that Bloodgood's bank is shaky, Fairweather tries to retrieve the money and dies in an argument with the banker.

[2][3] Thring decided to film the production as part of a number of theatre adaptations – the other one being Clara Gibbings.

The play had been mounted as a farce but Harvey set it back in its own period and to emphasise that it catered for 19th century tastes.

[9] The film was released in England in 1936 but received poor reviews, Picturegoer's critic calling it: A burlesque of transpontine melodrama which fails to come off and only succeeds in being tiresomely boring.