Beyond the Rocks is a 1922 American silent romantic drama film directed by Sam Wood, starring Rudolph Valentino and Gloria Swanson.

Captain Fitzgerald, a retired guardsman on a modest pension, has to support three daughters: Theodora and her older half-sisters.

Out of a sense of duty to her beloved father, she reluctantly agrees to wed the middle-aged, short, stout Josiah Brown, a former grocer's assistant who is now a multi-millionaire.

Rich American widow Jane McBride persuades the young bride to accompany her on a climbing excursion.

Meanwhile, Josiah is persuaded by another guest, renowned explorer Sir Lionel Grey, to fund his dangerous expedition.

After further consideration, Josiah decides to put his wife's happiness ahead of his own and joins Grey's expedition to Northern Africa.

In the last years of her life Gloria Swanson professed a desire to see Beyond the Rocks with a modern audience primarily because much interest lingered for Valentino especially at the 50th anniversary of his death in 1976.

The film was unavailable and considered lost at the time, save for a one-minute portion for the better part of the twentieth century until a print was found in the Netherlands in 2003.

It turned up among about two thousand rusty film canisters donated by an eccentric Dutch collector, Joop van Liempd of Haarlem.