Fighting Fate

{{short description|1925 silent film}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox film | name =Fighting Fate | image = Poster for Fighting Fate (1925).jpg | caption = Lobby card | director = Albert S. Rogell | producer =Harry Joe Brown<br>W. Ray Johnston | writer = Henry Roberts Symonds<br>John Grey | narrator = | starring =Billy Sullivan<br>Nancy Deaver<br>Tom McGuire | music = | cinematography =H. Lyman Broening | editing = | studio =Harry J. Brown Productions | distributor = Rayart Pictures | released = {{Film date|1925|10|09}} | runtime = 50 minutes | country = United States | language = Silent (English intertitles) | budget = | gross = }} '''''Fighting Fate''''' is a 1925 American silent sports film directed by Albert S. Rogell and starring Billy Sullivan, Nancy Deaver, and Tom McGuire.<ref>Munden p. 240</ref>

==Plot== As described in a film magazine review,<ref>{{Citation |last=Pardy |first=George T. |author-link= |title=Pre-Release Review of Features: ''Fighting Fate'' |journal=Motion Picture News |volume=33 |issue=6 |pages=703 |date=6 February 1926 |publisher=Motion Picture News, Inc. |location=New York City, New York |url=https://archive.org/details/motionpic33moti/page/n722/mode/1up |access-date=5 February 2023}} {{Source-attribution}}</ref> Damon Squires, aspiring lightweight boxer, broke while visiting a small town, resents an insult made to Sally O'Leary by a chap whom he knocks down. The latter turns out to be champion boxer Cyclone Winters. A boxing match is arranged with him, but Damon is doped by a bribed trainer and loses the fight. Sally, whose father runs a restaurant, still believes in Damon. Damon obtains proof that he had been double-crossed. In a second match he knocks Winters out, winning the championship and the affection of Sally.

==Cast== * Billy Sullivan as Damon Squires - The Fighter * John Sinclair as Pythias - The Manager * Nancy Deaver as Sally O'Leary - The Girl * Tom McGuire as Danny O'Leary * Phil Salvadore as Cyclone Winters - The Opponent * William Buckley as Glen Morgan * Ford West as Lew Muggins

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==Bibliography== * Munden, Kenneth White. ''The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1''. University of California Press, 1997.

==External links== * {{IMDb title|0132946}}

Category:1925 films Category:1920s sports films Category:1925 English-language films Category:American silent feature films Category:American boxing films Category:American black-and-white films Category:Rayart Pictures films Category:Films directed by Albert S. Rogell Category:1925 American films Category:American silent sports films Category:English-language sports films