The Call of the North
About The Call of the North
Graehme Stewart is accused of adultery and killed. He was innocent. His son Ned sets out to avenge him, is captured, and is sent on the long traverse, the trip meant to kill him. Virginia saves him. The man who set the charge confesses that Ned is innocent.
Cast & crew
More about The Call of the North
Oscar Apfel and Cecil B. DeMille directed. George Broadhurst wrote the screenplay from his 1908 play, itself from Stewart Edward White's 1903 novel The Conjuror's House. The Lasky company released it on 10 August 1914, in five reels. Robert Edeson, who had played both parts on stage, plays Graehme Stewart and Ned. It was Edeson's first film. Paramount remade it in 1921 with Jack Holt.
Themes
Making
Lasky put Edeson in the two roles he already knew from Broadhurst's play. Apfel and DeMille shared the direction.
Look
Alvin Wyckoff is credited with the photography in later sources.
Preservation
A copy is in the George Eastman Museum Motion Picture Collection.
Notes
- Theodore Roberts plays Galen Albret, the factor of a Hudson's Bay post. Winifred Kingston plays his daughter Virginia.
- Horace B. Carpenter plays Rand. Florence Dagmar plays Elodie. Fred Montague plays Jack Wilson.
- A 30 May 1914 Motography note listed eight demands in Edeson's Lasky contract, including winter filming at Moose Factory and a cast that looked like the Canadian Northwest.
- Modern credits give Alvin Wyckoff the camera.
- A copy is in the George Eastman Museum.
Scenes
- Graehme is killed on a charge of adultery he did not commit.
- Ned is sent out on the long traverse.
- Virginia gets him back, and the villain confesses.
Influenced by
- Stewart Edward White's The Conjuror's House
- George Broadhurst's play The Call of the North
Influenced
- The Call of the North (1921)
Also available
- George Eastman Museum
- Wikimedia Commons (The Call of the North (1914) by Oscar Apfel and Cecil B. DeMille.webm)
