Tearing Through

{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox film | name = Tearing Through | image = Tearing Through lobby card.jpg | caption = Lobby card with McGuire and Talmadge | director = Arthur Rosson | producer = | writer = Frederick Stowers | narrator = | starring =Richard Talmadge<br>Kathryn McGuire<br>Herbert Prior | music = | cinematography = William Marshall | editing = | studio = Richard Talmadge Productions <br> Truart Film Corporation | distributor = Film Booking Offices of America | released = {{Film date|1925|04|12}} | runtime = 50 minutes | country = United States | language = Silent (English intertitles) | budget = | gross = }} '''''Tearing Through''''' is a 1925 American silent action film directed by Arthur Rosson and starring Richard Talmadge, Kathryn McGuire, and Herbert Prior.<ref>Connelly p. 418</ref><ref>[http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/T/TearingThrough1925.html Progressive Silent Film List: ''Tearing Through''] at silentera.com</ref> It was released in Britain in 1926 by Ideal Films. The film originally had the title "Yellow Faces".<ref>"Changes in titles". ''Photoplay''. June 1925. p. 134. Retrieved June 12, 2023.</ref>

==Plot== As described in a film magazine review,<ref>{{Citation |title=New Pictures: ''Tearing Through'' |journal=Exhibitors Herald |volume=21 |issue=9 |pages=129 |date=23 May 1925 |url=https://archive.org/details/exhibitorsherald21unse/page/n1288/mode/1up |access-date=7 March 2022}} {{Source-attribution}}</ref> Richard Jones, assistant to the district attorney, volunteers to round up a ring of drug peddlers. He finds his rival for the hand of Constance Madison is in charge of the hop joint. He rescues Constance from the clutches of his rival and brings the peddlers in. He then learns that the District Attorney is involved in the hop ring. He becomes the new district attorney and also Constance's husband.

==Cast== {{Cast listing| * Richard Talmadge as Richard Jones * Kathryn McGuire as Constance Madison * Herbert Prior as District Attorney * Frank Elliott as Mr. Greer * Arthur Rankin as Bob Madison * Marcella Daly as Polly * Dave Morris as Chester }}

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==Bibliography== * Robert B. Connelly. ''The Silents: Silent Feature Films, 1910-36, Volume 40, Issue 2''. December Press, 1998.

==External links== {{commons category|Tearing Through}} * {{IMDb title|0168213}}

Category:1925 films Category:1925 action films Category:American silent feature films Category:American silent action films Category:American black-and-white films Category:Film Booking Offices of America films Category:Films directed by Arthur Rosson Category:1925 English-language films Category:1925 American films Category:English-language action films