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The Call of Her People
(1917) United States of America
B&W : Seven reels
Directed by John W. Noble

Cast: Ethel Barrymore [Egypt], Robert Whittier [the young Faro], William B. Davidson [Nicholas Van Kleet], Frank Montgomery [Faro Black], William Mandeville [Gordon Lindsay], Mrs. Allan Walker [Mother Komello], Helen Arnold [Mary Van Kleet], Hugh Jeffrey [the sheriff]

[?] Rolfe Photoplays, Incorporated, or Columbia Pictures Corporation? production; distributed by Metro Pictures Corporation. / Scenario by June Mathis, from the play Egypt by Edward Sheldon. Cinematography by Herbert O. Carleton. / © 23 April 1917 by Rolfe Photoplays, Incorporated [LP10630]. Released 30 April 1917. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Location photography was taken in Florida, with studio photography taken in a New York studio.

Drama.

Survival status: Prints exist in the George Eastman Museum film archive [35mm nitrate positive, 35mm fine-grain preservation negative, 35mm preservation positive].

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 7 June 2010.

References: Website-AFI; Website-NFPF.