The Fighting Hope
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 |
Produced by | Jesse Lasky |
Written by | Margaret Turnbull (scenario) |
Based on | The Fighting Hope (play) by William J. Hurlbut |
Starring | Laura Hope Crews |
Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
Release date | July 19, 1915 |
Running time | 5 reels |
Country | USA |
Language | Silent film..(English intertitles) |
Incomplete surviving film at BFI Institute (London).[4]
Cast
- 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
A man has been convicted of fraud, but his wife believes he is innocent and sets out to prove it.[6]
gollark: I know!
gollark: Plus the cooler materials.
gollark: Costs nothing but several thousand coal, about 2500 glowstone and a bit of copper!
gollark: I have preemptively obsoleted your design with my 1000% 9x9x9 one.
gollark: We can check THEIR modlists.
References
- 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
- 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.
External links
- The Fighting Hope @ IMDb.com
- synopsis at AllMovie
- The Fighting Hope as produced on Broadway, Stuyvesant Theater, September 22 1908; IBDb.com
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