The film is based on the novel by Emily Bronte "Wuthering heights" (Wuthering Heights, 1847).
The film is the first known adaptations of the novel.
The members of the society the name of Emily Bronte was trying to locate copies of the first adaptation of the novel. But the film, apparently, has not survived to our days.
In some sources it is argued that, in contrast to later adaptations, the film 1920 covered the entire novel.
Heathcliff in different ages played four different actor.