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The Valley of the Giants is a american film of genre Drama directed by Charles Brabin released in USA on 4 december 1927 with Milton Sills

The Valley of the Giants (1927)

The Valley of the Giants
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Released in USA 4 december 1927
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Adventure,    Romance
Rating62% 3.1357953.1357953.1357953.1357953.135795

The Valley of the Giants is a 1927 silent film adventure 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. A copy of this film survives at UCLA Film & Television. It's also listed as existing in an incomplete print at the Library of Congress.

Synopsis

De retour au pays après ses études, Bryce Cardigan découvre que la « Vallée des géants » (de séquoias) de son enfance, où se trouve la tombe de sa mère, est menacée par un projet de déforestation du colonel Pennington, aidé par Jules Rondeau. De plus, son père John connaît des difficultés financières et peut perdre sa propriété au profit de l'homme d'affaires. Shirley, la nièce de celui-ci, découvre sa malhonnêteté et se rallie à Bryce, dont elle tombe amoureuse...

Actors

Milton Sills

(Bryce Cardigan)Doris Kenyon

(Shirley Pennington)George Fawcett

(John Cardigan)Arthur Stone

(Buck Ogilvy)Paul Hurst

(Randeau)
And :
Charles Sellon
Yola d'Avril
James A. Marcus
Erville Alderson
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