Several other films with this title have been made based on the play by Tom Taylor. However this is based on the novel "Foul Play", by Charles Reade.
A review in Moving Picture World (October 24, 1914 pg. 497) mistakenly attributed the direction to Leopold Wharton. A later correction (Moving Picture World, November 7, 1914 pg. 765) identified the director as Henry J. Vernot.