Fighting Love

Fighting Love
Directed by	Nils Olaf Chrisander
Written by	Beulah Marie Dix
Based on	If the Gods Laugh by Rosita Forbes
Produced by	Cecil B. DeMille Bertram Millhauser
Starring	Jetta Goudal Victor Varconi Henry B. Walthall
Cinematography	Henry Cronjager
Edited by
Production company	DeMille Pictures Corporation
Distributed by	Producers Distributing Corporation National Film (Germany)
Release date	February 14, 1927
Running time	70 minutes
Country	United States
Languages	Silent English intertitles

Fighting Love is a 1927 American silent drama film directed by Nils Olaf Chrisander and starring Jetta Goudal, Victor Varconi and Henry B. Walthall.^[1] The film survives complete.^[2] It is based on the 1925 novel If the Gods Laugh by the British writer and explorer Rosita Forbes. The film's sets were designed by the art director Anton Grot.

Synopsis[]

After discovering her fiancée kissing another woman, Vittoria marries a family friend in a marriage of convenience and accompanies him to the Italian colony of Libya. While there she encounters a handsome young man and falls in love with him. Wrongly believing her husband to have been killed in a Bedouin attack, the two undergo an Arab wedding ceremony with him. When she discovers the truth she returns to her husband.

Cast[]

• Jetta Goudal as Donna Vittoria
• Victor Varconi as Gabriel Amari
• Henry B. Walthall as Filipo Navarro
• Louis Natheaux as Dario Niccolini
• Josephine Crowell as Princess Torini
• Eulalie Jensen as Zillah

References[]

Bibliography[]

• Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.

External links[]

• Fighting Love at IMDb

This article about a silent drama film from the 1920s is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .

• v
• t