The film is based on a 1920 Broadway play, Three Live Ghosts, by Frederic S. Isham and Max Marcin.

[1][2] A copy of the film, thought to be lost, was found in a Russian archive and shown publicly in 2015.

[4] As described in a film magazine,[5] three Allied soldiers escape from a World War I German prisoner-of-war camp and arrive as stowaways in London on Armistice Day.

The nobleman, given to fits of kleptomania, enters a mansion and attires himself in fine raiment and jewelry and then carries off a baby from a perambulator.

The English nobleman learns he has robbed his own home and taken his own child, the American and his sweetheart are reconciled and he is freed of a charge unjustly made against him, and the Cockney and his insurance matters are squared up.