The upcoming feature was announced in the 16 October 1920 It by its working title, Mother Love, to be directed by Edwin Carewe. One week later, the 23 October 1920 Wid’s Daily reported that Bayard Veiller, West Coast production chief for Metro Pictures Corp., had replaced Carewe with Wesley Ruggles.
       Articles in the 6 November 1920 and 13 November 1920 issues of Motion Picture News described one filming location as a canyon discovered by lead actress Alice Lake while hiking in the San Bernardino Mountains of Southern California. It was also noted that the scenario was based on the original story, “What About the Child?” by screenwriters Izola Forrester and Albert Shelby Le Vino. Other location shots took place in the Pacific Ocean aboard a “lumber schooner,” according to the 27 November 1920 and 18 December 1920 issues of Motion Picture News. When rough seas endangered the ship, production manager David H. Thompson dispatched several tugboats to rescue the cast and crew. Leading man Jack Dougherty was reportedly suffering from motion sickness but was able to leap to one of the rescue boats. The 1921 Motion Picture News Studio Directory listed Peggy Blackwood and child actor Richard “Itchie” Headrick as additional cast members. Marian Ainslee was credited with writing the intertitles.
       The film was released on 21 February 1921 as The Greater Claim. Its run continued for more than two years, as indicated by an exhibitor report in the 3 May 1924 Exhibitors Herald. A letter appearing in the September 1921 Photoplay recounted a sequence in which Jack Dougherty’s character notifies his father of his September 1920 wedding. The young man is then pressed into service aboard a ship, where the passage of time is shown on a 1917 calendar.
       Three unrelated productions, also titled Mother Love, were mentioned in the 29 May 1920 Exhibitors Herald, and the 25 September 1920 and 2 October 1920 issues of Motion Picture News. One was to be co-produced by theater magnate Sid Grauman and the City of Los Angeles, CA, as a fundraiser to provide child daycare for working mothers. Another was written by Augustus Thomas for producer Harry Raver, and the third was a starring vehicle for Vera Gordon, made in Fort Lee, NJ, under the supervision of Harry Rapf. Their release titles have not been determined.
       According to the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF) Treasures from the Film Archives database, this film is extant with the exception of its second reel.