The 22 Mar 1919 Moving Picture World reported the start of principal photography in the vicinity of Santa Cruz, CA, on the provisionally titled Madelon of the Redwoods, based on the 1896 novel, Madelon, by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman. It was the first of twenty planned films from Metro Pictures Corp. to be based on the author’s work. Joining the cast was leading man Wheeler Oakman, who had recently been discharged from the U.S. Army’s 144th Artillery regiment. The 5 Apr 1919 Motion Picture News specified the filming location as Big Trees, CA, six miles from the company’s lodgings in Santa Cruz. On 26 Apr 1919, Moving Picture World announced that filming was nearing completion. The title had been officially changed to False Evidence.
       Articles in the 10 May 1919 issues of Motion Picture News and Moving Picture World stated that portrait artist D. Anthony Tauszky painted twenty-one “oil studies” as title cards for the film. Producer-director Maxwell Karger was credited with hiring Tauszky, although there was no other indication that he was involved with the picture. Tauszky’s studio was located directly across the street from the Metro laboratories in Hollywood, CA.
       False Evidence opened 20 Apr 1919 at the New York Theatre in New York City, followed by a general release the next day. Reviews were generally positive, if not enthusiastic. The Oct 1919 Picture-Play noted that the actors portraying a lynch mob all appeared to be between the ages of seventy and 140.