Though its script is credited to D.W. Griffith, is actually a film adaptation of Winchell Smith's Broadway play . In his screen debut, Douglas Fairbanks plays a wealthy wastrel who is framed in a stock swindle. To prove his innocence, Fairbanks is plunked into several situations requiring him to display both his athletic and intellectual prowess. Seena Owen plays the girl who knew Fairbanks was a stalwart fellow all along. was remade in 1921 as , with Buster Keaton assuming the Douglas Fairbanks role.