The Call of the Canyon (film)

1923 film

The Call of the Canyon

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Directed by| Victor Fleming
Screenplay by|

* Edfrid A. Bingham
* Doris Schroeder

Based on| The Call of the Canyon
by Zane Grey
Produced by| Jesse Lasky
Starring|

* Richard Dix
* Lois Wilson
* Marjorie Daw

Cinematography| James Wong Howe

Production
company

Famous Players–Lasky

Distributed by| Paramount Pictures

Release date

* December 16, 1923 (1923-12-16) (USA)

Running time

| 70 minutes
7 reels, 6,993 ft
Country| United States
Language| Silent (English intertitles)

The Call of the Canyon is a 1923 American silent Western film directed by Victor Fleming and starring Richard Dix, Lois Wilson, and Marjorie Daw.[1] Based on the novel The Call of the Canyon by Zane Grey, the film is about a returning war veteran who is nursed back to health by a compassionate Arizona girl. The Call of the Canyon was filmed in Red Rock Crossing in Sedona, Arizona.[2]

## Plot

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Glenn Kilbourne (Richard Dix) returns from the war and travels to Arizona to regain his health. There he is nursed back to health by an Arizona girl, Flo Hutter (Marjorie Daw). Kilbourne's fiancée, Carley Burch (Lois Wilson), arrives in Arizona but soon becomes disillusioned with life in the West and returns to New York. Sometime later, Flo is seriously injured in an accident. Wanting to repay her for restoring him back to health, Glenn asks her to marry him. On their wedding day, Carley returns to Arizona from New York looking for Glenn. When Flo sees that Glenn and Carley are still in love, she calls off her wedding to Glenn and marries another admirer, Lee Stanton (Leonard Clapham).

## Cast

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* Richard Dix as Glenn Kilbourne
* Lois Wilson as Carley Burch
* Marjorie Daw as Flo Hunter
* Noah Beery, Sr. as Haze Ruff
* Ricardo Cortez as Larry Morrison
* Fred Huntley as Tom Hutter
* Lillian Leighton as Mrs. Hutter
* Helen Dunbar as Aunt Mary
* Tom London as Lee Stanton
* Eddie Clayton as Tenney Jones
* Dorothy Seastrom as Eleanor Harmon
* Laura Anson as Beatrice Lovell
* Charles Richards as Roger Newton
* Ralph Yearsley as Charlie Oatmeal
* Arthur Rankin as Virgil Rust
* Mervyn LeRoy as Jack Rawlins[3]

## Preservation status

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Once thought to be a lost film, The Call of the Canyon was one of ten silent films digitally preserved in Russia's film archive Gosfilmofond and provided to the Library of Congress in October 2010.[4][5]

## See also

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* List of rediscovered films

## References

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1. ^ "The Call of the Canyon". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved August 18, 2012.
2. ^ "Locations for The Call of the Canyon". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved August 18, 2012.
3. ^ "Full cast and crew". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved August 18, 2012.
4. ^ "'Lost' silent movies found in Russia, returned to U.S." cnn.com. Retrieved October 22, 2010.
5. ^ "The Call of the Canyon". silentera.com. Retrieved August 18, 2012.

## External links

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to The Call of the Canyon.

* The Call of the Canyon at IMDb
* The Call of the Canyon at the TCM Movie Database
* The Call Of The Canyon public domain audiobook at LibriVox

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Films directed by Victor Fleming

* When the Clouds Roll By (1919)
* The Mollycoddle (1920)
* Mama's Affair (1921)
* Woman's Place (1921)
* The Lane That Had No Turning (1922)
* Red Hot Romance (1922)
* Anna Ascends (1922)
* Dark Secrets (1923)
* Law of the Lawless (1923)
* To the Last Man (1923)
* The Call of the Canyon (1923)
* Code of the Sea (1924)
* Empty Hands (1924)
* The Devil's Cargo (1925)
* Adventure (1925)
* A Son of His Father (1925)
* Lord Jim (1925)
* The Blind Goddess (1926)
* Mantrap (1926)
* The Way of All Flesh (1927)
* Hula (1927)
* The Rough Riders (1927)
* Abie's Irish Rose (1928)
* The Awakening (1928)
* Wolf Song (1929)
* The Virginian (1929)
* Common Clay (1930)
* Renegades (1930)
* Around the World in 80 Minutes with Douglas Fairbanks (1931)
* The Wet Parade (1932)
* Red Dust (1932)
* The White Sister (1933)
* Bombshell (1933)
* Treasure Island (1934)
* Reckless (1935)
* The Farmer Takes a Wife (1935)
* Captains Courageous (1937)
* Test Pilot (1938)
* The Wizard of Oz (1939)
* Gone with the Wind (1939)
* Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941)
* Tortilla Flat (1942)
* A Guy Named Joe (1943)
* Adventure (1946)
* Joan of Arc (1948)

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