A Jewel Production. Universal, lacking a proprietary theater chain, devised a 3-tiered feature branding system to market its product to independent theater owners: Red Feather (low-budget programmers), Bluebird (mainstream releases) and Jewel (prestige productions produced in hopes to draw higher roadshow ticket prices). This branding system remained in effect for about 15 years, fading away in late 1929.
This film is listed in the Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Database as, No holdings located in archives.
Cynthia Stockley's novel Wild Honey was purchased by Universal in 1921 with Priscilla Dean already in mind. Brothers Wallace and Noah Beery appeared for the first time in the same feature film.
This was the first film in which a traveling matte process (called the "Williams process" after its inventor) was used. The action of the players was filmed against a black screen, and a scene in miniature of a bursting dam and consequent flood was filmed separately, then the two were combined by the process.
Reviews were mostly negative, but many critics singled out the flood scene as impressive and some regarded it as worth the price of admission.