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Canyon of the Fools
(1923) United States of America
B&W : [?] Five or Six? reels / 5180 feet
Directed by Val Paul

Cast: Harry Carey [Bob], Marguerite Clayton [May], Fred Stanton [Jim Harper / Pohill], Joseph Harris [Terazaz], Jack Curtis [Maricopia], Carmen Arselle [Incarnación], Charles J. Le Moyne [Swasey], Vester Pegg [Knute], Murdock MacQuarrie [Sproul], Mignonne Golden [Aurelia]

R-C Pictures Corporation production; distributed by Film Booking Offices of America, Incorporated [FBO]. / Scenario by John W. Grey, from the novel The Canyon of the Fools by Richard Matthews Hallett. Cinematography by William Thornley and Robert De Grasse. / © 18 November 1922 by R-C Pictures Corporation [LP20005]. Released 21 January 1923. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / A digitally-preserved print of the film was gifted to the Library of Congress from the Gosfilmofond film archive in October 2010.

Drama: Western.

Survival status: Print exists in the Gosfilmofond film archive; and in the Library of Congress film archive [35mm preservation print (acquired October 2010)].

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 28 January 2011.

References: Sherwood-Best p. 159 : Website-AFI.