The film was released to the states’ rights market in early 1923 by distributor Lee-Bradford Corp., as indicated by an item in the 2 Mar 1923 Film Daily. Production may have been completed sometime during the previous year.
The Call of the Hills opened on 3 May 1923 at the Garden Theatre in Brooklyn, NY. Reviews in the 5 May 1923 Moving Picture World and the 16 Jun 1923 Exhibitors Trade Review listed cast member Maude Malcolm as “Maud Malcolm.” The film was mentioned in the 19 May 1923 Exhibitors Trade Review as featuring “refreshing scenes from Kentucky hills,” although they were not verified as actual location shots.
A 1911 short subject, also titled The Call of the Hills, was produced by Powers Picture Plays.
According to the Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database, this film is extant. ...
The film was released to the states’ rights market in early 1923 by distributor Lee-Bradford Corp., as indicated by an item in the 2 Mar 1923 Film Daily. Production may have been completed sometime during the previous year.
The Call of the Hills opened on 3 May 1923 at the Garden Theatre in Brooklyn, NY. Reviews in the 5 May 1923 Moving Picture World and the 16 Jun 1923 Exhibitors Trade Review listed cast member Maude Malcolm as “Maud Malcolm.” The film was mentioned in the 19 May 1923 Exhibitors Trade Review as featuring “refreshing scenes from Kentucky hills,” although they were not verified as actual location shots.
A 1911 short subject, also titled The Call of the Hills, was produced by Powers Picture Plays.
According to the Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database, this film is extant.
In the mountains of Kentucky, Violet Kruger repels the advances of bootlegger Jed Keith, while purchasing liquor at the behest of her drunkard father, Ben. She returns home and smashes the jug of whiskey in a fit of anger, incurring Ben’s wrath. Judge Willie Hoyt and his wife rescue Violet and send her to a boarding school on the Hudson River. She later marries Allen Grey, a student at the U.S. Military Academy, but their happiness is threatened by Jed, who tries in vain to claim Violet for himself. After Ben is mortally wounded by Jed, he reveals that Violet is really the daughter of socially prominent and wealthy parents, who lost her to a Gypsy when she was only a child. ...
In the mountains of Kentucky, Violet Kruger repels the advances of bootlegger Jed Keith, while purchasing liquor at the behest of her drunkard father, Ben. She returns home and smashes the jug of whiskey in a fit of anger, incurring Ben’s wrath. Judge Willie Hoyt and his wife rescue Violet and send her to a boarding school on the Hudson River. She later marries Allen Grey, a student at the U.S. Military Academy, but their happiness is threatened by Jed, who tries in vain to claim Violet for himself. After Ben is mortally wounded by Jed, he reveals that Violet is really the daughter of socially prominent and wealthy parents, who lost her to a Gypsy when she was only a child.
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