Beyond the Rocks was the only film in which popular silent film stars Gloria Swanson and Rudolph Valentino acted together. According to early advertisements, Valentino's first name was sometimes spelled "Rodolph."
The opening title cards introduce the following information: “In a sequestered village on the Dorset Coast of England lives the gay and kindly Captain Fitzgerald,on the meagre pension of a broken and retired guardsman.” Intertitle cards also introduce Fitzgerald’s daughters, “Clementine” and “Sarah,” as half sisters of “Theodora” [Swanson’s character], but neither character is identified in the cast.
The 24 Dec 1921 Moving Picture World announced that Gloria Swanson was filming Beyond the Rocks on Catalina Island, CA. An item in the 28 Jan 1922 FD mentioned that Beyond the Rocks was being shot at the Lasky Ranch on the north side of the Hollywood Hills, where a “country home” was located. (Forest Lawn Cemetery is located there now.) The 17 Feb 1922 Var announced that filming was completed. Elinor Glyn, the best-selling author who wrote the novel, was on the lot and “taking an active interest,” the Mar 1922 Motion Picture News noted. The 29 Jul 1922 Exhibitors Trade Review reported that Gloria Swanson nearly drowned while shooting a scene.
The film opened in New York City at the Rivoli Theatre. The 19 May 1922 Var reported: "Broadway’s real surprise came in the terrific business which was attracted to the Rivoli last week by the Elinor Glyn story, Beyond the Rocks, in which Gloria Swanson and Rodolph Valentino are the featured players. With almost $30,000 as the grosses, it was decided to hold the picture over.” The second week “drew almost 125,000 on the strength of the notoriety [Valentino] received [because] of his Mexican marriage,” according to the 26 May 1922 Var. For the third week, the film was moved to the larger Rialto. At both theaters, Beyond the Rocks was accompanied with a Buster Keaton comedy short called “The Paleface,” along with performances by opera singers and ballet dancers. The 27 May 1922 Moving Picture World quoted the New York Call as writing: “Everything about [the film] is expensive--gowns, jewels, houses, restaurants, all designed to make people gasp.”
For many years, the film was thought to be lost, but in Apr 2004 the Nederlands Filmmuseum announced that its staff had discovered original nitrate reels of the picture within a large film collection donated to the museum by a Dutch collector. The picture was subsequently restored, and English-language intertitles were recreated to substitute the Dutch intertitles. The new version was screened in 2005 at the Cannes Film Festival, the London Film Festival, and several other international venues.
 Beyond the Rocks was considered lost until a print turned up in Dutch archives in 2002. It is available on YouTube in 2016.