A WWI vet takes on the KKK when he loses his wife to a womanizing Klansman.A WWI vet takes on the KKK when he loses his wife to a womanizing Klansman.A WWI vet takes on the KKK when he loses his wife to a womanizing Klansman.
- Awards
- 4 wins
Symona Boniface
- Woman at Welcome-Home Party
- (uncredited)
Delmer Daves
- Undetermined Role
- (uncredited)
Christian J. Frank
- Wife Beater
- (uncredited)
Herman J. Mankiewicz
- Newspaperman
- (uncredited)
Broderick O'Farrell
- Poker Player on Train
- (uncredited)
Will Walling
- Uncle Billy - Townsman
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaLong thought to be lost, a print was discovered in the Howard Hughes collection at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
- GoofsAlthough the story takes place immediately after World War I (1918-1919), all of Evelyn Brent's and Helen Foster's clothes are strictly in the 1928 short skirt mode, completely out of place in the time frame of the story.
- Quotes
Poker Player: Major Hatten seems to be suffering from shell shock.
Hatten's Best Man: Worse than that! He's in love - with his own wife.
- Alternate versionsIn 2004, the University of Nevada Las Vegas and Flicker Alley, LLC copyrighted a digitally restored version with a new orchestral score composed, arranged and conducted by Robert Israel. It was produced by Jeffery Masino and runs 72 minutes.
- ConnectionsReferences The Sky Rider (1928)
Featured review
Sex, lies, and the Order
THE MATING CALL was shown on TCM on Dec. 15, 2004, marking its apparent first screening since 1928. The silent film is something of a morality play, complete with a returning soldier who has lost his wife (to an adulterer); a morals police force, the Order, in dark cloth hoods (except for the leader, who wears satin); one woman drenched by a bucket of water and another caught skinny-dipping; and some provocative eyebrow acting. Evelyn Brent radiates sex as Rose, while Thomas Meighan seems mostly confused as the farmer who needs a replacement woman -- and goes to Ellis Island to get one! THE MATING CALL, directed by James Cruze (I COVER THE WATERFRONT), ably entertains while carrying a rather more serious theme on hypocrisy.
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- Mating Call
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- General Service Studios - 1040 N. Las Palmas, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA(studio - known as Metropolitan Studios at the time)
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- $400,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 12 minutes
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- 1.33 : 1
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