''The Call of the Canyon'' is a 1923 American
silent Western film
The Western is a genre set in the American frontier and commonly associated with folk tales of the Western United States, particularly the Southwestern United States, as well as Northern Mexico and Western Canada. It is commonly referred ...
directed by
Victor Fleming and starring
Richard Dix,
Lois Wilson, and
Marjorie Daw.
Based on the novel ''The Call of the Canyon'' by
Zane Grey
Pearl Zane Grey (January 31, 1872 – October 23, 1939) was an American author and dentist. He is known for his popular adventure novels and stories associated with the Western genre in literature and the arts; he idealized the American fronti ...
, 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
Red Rock is a place in Yavapai County, Arizona, United States. Red Rock is southwest of Sedona.
Red Rock Crossing is a former ford across Oak Creek with views of Cathedral Rock. The crossing was washed out in a flood in 1978, and there are n ...
in Sedona, Arizona.
Plot
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
Preservation status
Once thought to be a
lost film
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, ''The Call of the Canyon'' was one of ten silent films digitally preserved in Russia's film archive
Gosfilmofond
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and provided to the
Library of Congress
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in October 2010.
See also
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List of rediscovered films
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1923 films
1923 Western (genre) films
Films based on works by Zane Grey
American black-and-white films
Films based on short fiction
Films directed by Victor Fleming
Films set in Arizona
Paramount Pictures films
1920s rediscovered films
Rediscovered American films
Silent American Western (genre) films
1920s American films