''Flower of the North'' is a surviving 1921 American silent northwoods

drama film In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. The drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular ...

directed by David Smith and produced and distributed by the

Vitagraph Company of America Vitagraph Studios, also known as the Vitagraph Company of America, was a United States motion picture studio. It was founded by J. Stuart Blackton and Albert E. Smith in 1897 in Brooklyn, New York, as the American Vitagraph Company. By 1907 ...

. It starred

Henry B. Walthall Henry Brazeale Walthall (March 16, 1878 – June 17, 1936) was an American stage and film actor. He appeared as the Little Colonel in D. W. Griffith's ''The Birth of a Nation'' (1915). Early life Henry B. Walthall was born March 16, 1878 on a ...

and

Pauline Starke Pauline Starke (January 10, 1901Some sources say she was born in 1900. – February 3, 1977) was an American silent-film actress. Early years Pauline Starke was born on January 10, 1901, in Joplin, Missouri, the daughter of George W. Starke a ...

and is based upon the novel of the same name by

James Oliver Curwood James Oliver Curwood (June 12, 1878 – August 13, 1927) was an American action-adventure writer and conservationist. His books were often based on adventures set in the Hudson Bay area, the Yukon or Alaska and ranked among the top-ten best selle ...

Plot

Cast

as Philip Whittemore *

as Jeanne D'Arcambal *

Harry Northrup Harry Northrup (born Henri Stabo Wallace Northrup; 31 July 1875 – 2 July 1936), was an American film actor of the silent film, silent era. He appeared in more than 130 films between 1911 and 1935. He was born in Paris and died in Los Angeles, ...

as Thorpe *

Joe Rickson Joe Rickson (born Oscar Erickson; September 6, 1880 – January 8, 1958) was an American actor of the silent era. He appeared in 90 films between 1913 and 1945. He was born in Clearcreek, Montana and died in Los Angeles, California. Partial fi ...

as Pierre * Jack Curtis as Blake *

Emmett King Emmett Carleton King (May 31, 1865 – April 21, 1953) was an American actor of the stage and screen. Biography King began his acting career on stage. His first Broadway appearance was in 1899, in the farce, ''The Father of His Country'', which ...

as D'Arcambal *Walter Rodgers as MacDougal * William McCall as Cassidy *Vincente Howard as Sachigo

Preservation

The film is preserved in a splendid print at

Filmmuseum Eye Filmmuseum is a film archive, museum, and cinema in Amsterdam that preserves and presents both Dutch and foreign films screened in the Netherlands. Location and history Eye Filmmuseum is located in the Overhoeks neighborhood of Amsterdam in ...

EYE Institut Netherlands with Dutch language intertitles.The Library of Congress/FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: ''Flower of the North''
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* 1921 films American silent feature films Vitagraph Studios films Films directed by David Smith (director) American black-and-white films Silent American drama films 1921 drama films Northern (genre) films Films based on novels by James Oliver Curwood 1920s American films {{1920s-silent-drama-film-stub