The Fighting Hope is a 1915 silent film drama directed by George Melford and starring Thomas Meighan and Laura Hope Crews, both in their film debuts.[1] Jesse Lasky produced and Paramount Pictures released.[2][3] Based on a 1908 play by William J. Hurlbut that was produced by David Belasco.
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Directed by | George Melford |
Written by | Margaret Turnbull (scenario) |
Based on | The Fighting Hope (play) by William J. Hurlbut |
Produced by | Jesse Lasky |
Starring | Laura Hope Crews |
Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 5 reels |
Country | USA |
Language | Silent film..(English intertitles) |
Incomplete surviving film at BFI Institute (London).[4]
Cast
edit- George Gebhardt – Robert Granger
- Laura Hope Crews – Anna Granger[5]
- Gerald Ward – Robert Harold Granger
- Thomas Meighan – Burton Temple
- Richard Morris – Craven
- Florence Smythe – Miss Gorham
- Theodore Roberts – Cornelius Brady
- Cleo Ridgely – Rose Fanchom
- Tom Forman – Detective Clark
- William Elmer – Detective Fletcher
Plot
editA man has been convicted of fraud, but his wife believes he is innocent and sets out to prove it.[6]
References
edit- ^ Pauline Bartel (9 June 2014). The Complete Gone With the Wind Trivia Book: The Movie and More. Taylor Trade Publishing. p. 46. ISBN 978-1-58979-821-2.
- ^ The AFI Catalog of Feature Films: The Fighting Hope Archived 2014-03-29 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ The Fighting Hope at silentera.com
- ^ The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog : The Fighting Hope
- ^ Roy Liebman (31 January 2017). Broadway Actors in Films, 1894_ÑÐ2015. McFarland. pp. 63–. ISBN 978-1-4766-2615-4.
- ^ To-day's Cinema News and Property Gazette. Amer. Company, Limited. 1915. pp. 33, 73.