The Valley of the Giants is a 1927 American silent adventure film directed by Charles Brabin and starring Milton Sills and Doris Kenyon who were real-life man and wife. It was based on a novel by Peter B. Kyne. First National produced and distributed the film having gained the screen rights to the story from Famous Players–Lasky and Paramount. Paramount had made a version of the novel in 1919 with Wallace Reid, and it would again be filmed in 1938 and readapted into the 1952 film The Big Trees. A copy of this film survives at the UCLA Film & Television Archive.Progressive Silent Film List: The Valley of the Giants at silentera.com It is also listed as existing in an incomplete print at the Library of Congress.Catalog of Holdings The American Film Institute Collection and The United Artists Collection at The Library of Congress, by The American Film Institute, p. 200 c.1978 A 16mm copy is housed at the Wisconsin Center for Film & Theater Research.Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research, Feature Film Database:The Valley of the Giants
Plot
Cast Milton Sills as Bryce Cardigan Doris Kenyon as Shirley Pennington Arthur Stone as Buck Ogilvy George Fawcett as John Cardigan Paul Hurst as Randeau Charles Sellon as Pennington Yola d'Avril as Felice Phil Brady as Big Boy James A. Marcus as Mayor Erville Alderson as Councilman Dan Crimmins as Councilman Otto Hoffman as Councilman Lucien Littlefield as Councilman Dan Mason as Councilman
Production The film was shot on location in Humboldt County, California.
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