Fighting Love

1927 film

Fighting Love

Theatrical Release Poster

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| Claude Berkeley

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[edit]

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[edit]

* 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

## Reception[edit]

The Pittsburgh Press noted that the film was "more interesting than the story... from which it was adapted."[3] The Ottawa Citizen stated that the film "teems with romance, color, action and drama with a climax as startling as it is unexpected."[4]

## References[edit]

1. ^ Goble p.761
2. ^ "Fighting Love (1927)". Library of Congress. Retrieved November 9, 2020.
3. ^ Harris (April 4, 1927). "Screen Review". The Pittsburgh Press. p. 36. Retrieved June 26, 2023.
4. ^ "At B. F. Keith's". Ottawa Citizen. May 10, 1927. p. 5. Retrieved June 26, 2023.

## Bibliography[edit]

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

## External links[edit]

* Fighting Love at IMDb

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