The Fighting Hope

1915 film by George Melford
  • July 19, 1915 (1915-07-19)
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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.

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]

References

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ The AFI Catalog of Feature Films: The Fighting Hope
  3. ^ The Fighting Hope at silentera.com
  4. ^ The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog : The Fighting Hope
  5. ^ Roy Liebman (31 January 2017). Broadway Actors in Films, 1894_ÑÐ2015. McFarland. pp. 63–. ISBN 978-1-4766-2615-4.
  6. ^ 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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Films directed by George Melford