The Summary for this unviewed film was based partly on Susan Elizabeth Brady’s short story of the same name, inspired by the original scenario, published in the Jul 1922 Motion Picture Magazine. Producer-director-writer J. Stuart Blackton reportedly got the idea for The Glorious Adventure after seeing the painting, “The Rope and the King,” in a London, England, art gallery. The image showed the wedding of a “fair lady” to a felon in the Newgate Gaol.
       The Glorious Adventure was shot in England over four months, with “over 200 acting parts” and 1,000 people involved in the production. It was the first feature film using Prizma’s “color-in-the-film” process, also called “natural color,” according to the 4 Feb 1922 Exhibitors Trade Review. Advertising billed it: “The first all-color feature-length film.” Prizma’s inventor, William V. D. Kelley, supervised the production. In its review of the movie, the 6 May 1922 Exhibitors Trade Review claimed the color worked best during the great fire of London, during which “the reflection of the flames on buildings and passers-by is quite the most convincing effect.” However, clothing and backgrounds “suffer[ed] from ill-proportioned reds and bluish-greens.”
       Star Lady Diana Manners was in fact a “lady,” daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Rutland, and the film’s narrative was billed in the title as “her own story,” even though it took place two centuries earlier. This was Lady Manners’s first of only two featured film roles; she portrayed “Queen Elizabeth” a year later in The Virgin Queen.
       After premiering at London’s Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, The Glorious Adventure had its American premiere at the Capitol Theatre in New York City on 23 Apr 1922. The 1 Apr 1922 Exhibitors Trade Review noted that it arrived from England as a seven-reel film, but was “undergoing editorial revision and titling at the hands of Katharine Hilliker and Captain Harry Caldwell.”