In an 18 March 1928 Film Daily news item, The River Woman was listed as one of four special productions in Gotham Productions’ thirty-picture release schedule for the 1928-1929 season. Principal photography took place in Los Angeles, CA, and on location in Sacramento, CA, where river scenes were shot, according to the 23 June 1928 Exhibitors Herald and Moving Picture World. Filming was completed by late June or early July 1928, as noted in the 7 July 1928 Motion Picture News. Some sound synchronization, including sound effects and musical accompaniment, was done in post-production. The 17 November 1928 Motion Picture News stated that, although The River Woman was touted as one of Gotham’s “Talking Twelve” sound releases, it was the only one in the group that did not contain dialogue. Synchronization was done at Sonora Recording Laboratories in New York, according to the 26 February 1929 Film Daily. Conflicting information in the 15 November 1928 Film Daily claimed that work at Sonora was done in Waterbury, CT. The latter also stated that a prologue was recorded there using “Sonoratone.”
       Theatrical release was scheduled for 1 December 1928. The 16 October 1928 Los Angeles Times announced the film’s world premiere that night at Los Angeles’s Shrine Civic Auditorium.
       A review in the 13 August 1928 Exhibitors Daily Review named Arthur Thalasso, Frank Howard Clark, and Jimmy Quinn as cast members. Although the 27 August 1929 Chicago Daily Tribune credited Security Pictures as the production company, other contemporary identified only Gotham as the producer.
       According to the Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database, this film is extant.