The Rendezvous (1923 film)

The Rendezvous is a 1923 American silent adventure melodrama film with comedic overtones directed by Marshall Neilan and starring Richard Travers, Conrad Nagel, Lucille Ricksen, and Syd Chaplin.

[1] As described in a film magazine review,[2] in the Russian Empire, Prince Sergei and his wife Varvara are exiled to Siberia by the Tsar Nicholas II.

Varvara dies giving birth to a daughter, Vera, who is left in a friend's care by the father.

Walter Stanford, an officer in the American Expeditionary Force, Siberia, rescues Vera from a Cossack raid at a shrine, but she is forced to wed a Cossack chief.

The film was shot in San Francisco and Los Angeles using real-life U.S. Army soldiers as extras.