The Valley of Silent Men

Shot Mountie Lew Cody discovers his old friend with a corpse, strangled with a hank of hair. He says he didn't do it. Because Cody thinks he will die from his wounds, he falsely confesses to the murder. Enter mysterious Alma Rubens, who overawes RCMP commandant George Nash, and rescues the recovered Cody, taking him to the mysterious Valley of Silent Men, pursued by Cody's friend Joe King over mountains and glaciers.

The DVD copy I looked at was from a print rescued and restored by the Library of Congress, but there's a lot of damage and large missing sections, which have been replaced by titles derived from reviews of the movie, shooting script, and the novel by James Oliver Curwood it is based on. Andrew Simpson provides an appropriately melodramatic score. Despite some flaws with the story as it is reconstructed, director Frank Borzage and cameraman Chester Lyons have taken advantage of extensive location shooting around Lake Louise and Banff to lend an ironic tone to the petty doings of men and women.