The Primitive Call

{{short description|1917 film by Bertram Bracken}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox film | name = The Primitive Call | image = Gladys Coburn and Fritz Leiber in "The Primitive Call" (SAYRE 13689).jpg | caption = Still with Coburn and Leiber | director = Bertram Bracken | producer = | writer = Bertram Bracken | narrator = | starring = {{ubl|Gladys Coburn|Fritz Leiber|John Webb Dillion}} | music = | cinematography = Rial Schellinger | editing = | studio = Fox Film | distributor =Fox Film | released = {{Film date|1917|01|22}} | runtime = 50 minutes | country = United States | language = Silent (English intertitles) | budget = | gross = }} '''''The Primitive Call''''' is a 1917 American silent drama film directed by Bertram Bracken and starring Gladys Coburn, Fritz Leiber, and John Webb Dillion.<ref>Solomon p. 237</ref>

==Cast== {{Cast listing| * Gladys Coburn as Betty Malcolm * Fritz Leiber as Brain Elkhorn * John Webb Dillion as Bart Jennings * George Larkin as Percy Malcolm * Lewis Sealy as John Malcolm * Velma Whitman as Elsie Jennings * Kittens Reichert as Buttons Jennings }}

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==Bibliography== * Solomon, Aubrey. ''The Fox Film Corporation, 1915-1935: A History and Filmography''. McFarland, 2011.

==External links== {{commons category|The Primitive Call}} *{{IMDb title|0008459}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Primitive Call}} Category:1917 films Category:1917 drama films Category:1917 English-language films Category:American silent feature films Category:American silent drama films Category:American black-and-white films Category:Films directed by Bertram Bracken Category:Fox Film films Category:1917 American films Category:English-language drama films