The Valley of the Moon
Cast & Crew
Hobart Bosworth
Jack Conway
Myrtle Stedman
Ernest Garcia
Rhea Haines
Joseph Ray
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
A prologue depicts author Jack London at his Sonoma, California ranch. In the main story, Billy Roberts, a San Francisco boxer and teamster, meets Saxon, a laundress, at a picnic in Weazel Park. They marry, but shortly after their wedding a strike ensues among the teamsters and strikebreakers are brought in. During a riot, Burt, Billy's best friend, is killed, then Saxon has a miscarriage and Billy begins to drink. After Billy is sent to jail, Saxon reveals that the two must leave the city. Subsequent to Billy's release, the two begin their search for an ideal rural community. In Carmel, California, they meet the "Abalone Eaters," a group of artists. Billy wins a boxing match and his winnings enable the couple to purchase a farm in Sonoma, "The Valley of the Moon," where they prosper and Saxon conceives a child.
Director
Hobart Bosworth
Cast
Jack Conway
Myrtle Stedman
Ernest Garcia
Rhea Haines
Joseph Ray
Hobart Bosworth
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
Notes
London's novel was serialized in Cosmopolitan between April 1913 and December 1913. This was one of the series of Jack London stories filmed by Bosworth, beginning with 1913's The Sea Wolf. Nearly all comtemporary news articles refer to the film as a six-reeler, but the copyright entry gives the film's length as seven reels. An item in the Jack London collection indicates that the film was eight reels long when first screened for the public in May 1914. Other items in the London collection state that scenes from the film were shot in San Francisco, Carmel, and Santa Catalina Island, CA, and on London's ranch in Glen Ellen, CA, and that censors in Chicago excised the film's boxing and mob scenes. Various socialist organizations sponsored special screenings of the film.
