Though not a direct adaptation, the premise of the story was strongly influenced by the play Au Téléphone (At the Telephone) by André de Lorde, first published in 1902 and a staple of the Theatre du Grand Guignol in Paris. A contemporary of Weber and Smalley, D.W. Griffith, adapted the play to film as The Lonely Villa (1909) and, taking even more liberties with the premise, in An Unseen Enemy (1912).
A print survives in the National Film Archives in London and was preserved by the British Film Institute.
In 2020, the film was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."
The film consists of 46 shots.