A growing source of silent era film information. This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett. Copyright © 1999-2025 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company. All Rights Reserved.

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The Call of the East
(1917) United States of America
B&W : Five reels
Directed by George H. Melford (George Melford)

Cast: Sessue Hayakawa [Arai Takada], Tsuru Aoki [O’Mitsu, his sister], Jack Holt [Alan Hepburn], Margaret Loomis [Sheila Hepburn], James Cruze [Janzo], Ernest Joy [Colonel Bassett], Guy Oliver [Cadger], Jane Wolff (Jane Wolfe) [Yuri]

Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company, Incorporated, production; distributed by Paramount Pictures Corporation [A Paramount Picture]. / Produced by Jesse L. Lasky. Scenario by Beulah Marie Dix, from a screen story by Beulah Marie Dix. Art direction by Wilfred Buckland and Max Parker. Assistant director, Roy Marshall. Cinematography by Percy Hilburn. Presented by Jesse L. Lasky. / Released 15 October 1917. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.

Drama.

Survival status: The film is presumed lost.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 26 January 2025.

References: Website-IMDb.