A growing source of silent era film information. This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett. Copyright © 1999-2024 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company. All Rights Reserved.

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The Call of Youth
(1920) England
B&W : Four reels / 3900 feet
Directed by Hugh Ford

Cast: Mary Glynne [Betty Overton], Marjorie Hume [Joan Lawton], Jack Hobbs [Hubert Richmond], Malcolm Cherry [James Agar], Ben Webster [Mark Lawton], Gertrude Sterroll [Mrs. Lawton], Victor Humphrey [Peter Hoskins], John Peachey [Doctor Michaelson], Ralph Foster [the minister]

Famous Players-Lasky British Producers, Limited, production; distributed by Paramount Pictures Corporation [British]. / Scenario by Eve Unsell, from the play James the Fogey by Henry Arthur Jones. Cinematography by Hal Young. Intertitle card design by Alfred Hitchcock. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The film was released at 1180 or 1189 metres (four reels) in the USA by Paramount Pictures Corporation on 13 March 1921.

Drama: Romance.

Survival status: (unknown)

Current rights holder: (unknown) [United Kingdom]; Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 20 August 2018.

References: Gifford-British n. 07066; Taylor-Hitchcock p. 40 : Website-IMDb.