Bob Brothers (Tal Ordell) is a bushman who quarrelled with his father ten years earlier, left him and changed his name.

His younger brother Dick (Robert MacKinnon) is being blackmailed by the evil Tessie (Lorna Lantaur) into stealing money.

[2] Beaumont Smith had previously adapted Lawson's for the stage in 1916, and it toured Australia for that and the following year.

[6] Smith shot and edited the film from July to August 1921 in and around Windsor and Redclay in New South Wales.

His assistant director was Phil K. Walsh, who later directed two Australian films, Around the Boree Log and The Birth of White Australia.