Victor Fleming’s 1923 adaptation of Zane Grey’s “The Call of the Canyon” (1923) with Richard Dix and Rex Ingram’s filmed-in-Tunisia “The Arab” (1924) starring Ramon Navarro are among 10 “long lost” Hollywood films presented to the U.S. on hard drives yesterday by the government of Russia.

These high-definition restorations are the first of what are said to be hundreds of U.S. films that are being “repatriated” to the Library of Congress from the Soviet film archives, which hold many American silents that were either deliberately destroyed or allowed to disintegrate by the Hollywood studios that made them.

 

The other films, several of them later remade at least once, include “Valley of the Giants” and “You’re Fired,” a pair of 1919 films directed by James Cruz with Wallace Reid; Roy William Neill’s “The Conquest of Caanan” (1921) with Thomas Meighan; George Fitzmaurice’s “Kick In” (1922) starring Betty Compson; Edward Cline’s “Circus Days” (1923) with Jackie Coogan; and “The Eternal Struggle” (1923) with Renee Adoree, directed by Reginal Barker for Louis B. Mayer Producer for Metro release before their merger into MGM. The list also includes independently produced vehicles for Harry Carey (“Canyon of the Fools,” 1923) and Monty Banks (“Keep Smiling,” 1925).

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