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. It is also listed as existing in an incomplete print at the Library of Congress. A 16mm copy is housed at the Wisconsin Center for Film & Theater Research.
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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.