Fighting Love

1927 film

Beulah Marie Dix

Based onIf the Gods Laugh by Rosita ForbesProduced by

Cecil B. DeMille
Bertram Millhauser

Starring

Jetta Goudal
Victor Varconi
Henry B. Walthall

CinematographyHenry CronjagerEdited byClaude Berkeley

Production
company

DeMille Pictures Corporation

Distributed byProducers Distributing Corporation
National Film (Germany)

Release date

February 14, 1927 (1927-02-14)

Running time

70 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguagesSilent
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

Reception

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

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