Channing Pollock originally adapted the Frank Norris novel The Pit as a play. The play ran at the Lyric Theatre on Broadway between February and April, 1904, and the cast included Edward Boulden, Kenneth Davenport, Douglas Fairbanks, Hale Hamilton, Charles Kenyon, Wilton Lackaye, Merritt, Charles and Joseph A. Wilkes.
Producer William A. Brady, writer Channing Pollock and actor Wilton Lackaye all previously worked together on the stage version of Frank Norris's novel, The Pit, ten years before this film was made.
The source material, the novel of the same name by Frank Norris, was first published in 1903, nine years before this film was released. Norris died shortly before the novel's publication.
This film is presumed lost.