{{short description|1915 film by George Melford}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} {{infobox film | name = The Fighting Hope | image = The Fighting Hope - newspaperscene - 1915.jpg | caption = Scene from the film | director = George Melford | producer = Jesse Lasky | writer = Margaret Turnbull (scenario) | based_on = {{based on|''The Fighting Hope'' (play)|William J. Hurlbut}} | starring = Laura Hope Crews | music = | cinematography = | editing = | distributor = Paramount Pictures | released = {{Film date|1915|07|19}} | runtime = 5 reels | country = USA | language = Silent film..(English intertitles) }} '''''The Fighting Hope''''' is a 1915 silent film drama directed by George Melford and starring Thomas Meighan and Laura Hope Crews, both in their film debuts.<ref name="Bartel2014">{{cite book|author=Pauline Bartel|title=The Complete Gone With the Wind Trivia Book: The Movie and More|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ioDyAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA46|date=9 June 2014|publisher=Taylor Trade Publishing|isbn=978-1-58979-821-2|page=46}}</ref> Jesse Lasky produced and Paramount Pictures released.<ref>[http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=16511 The AFI Catalog of Feature Films: ''The Fighting Hope''] {{Archive url|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140329061338/http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=16511|date=2014-03-29}}</ref><ref>[http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/F/FightingHope1915.html ''The Fighting Hope'' at silentera.com]</ref> Based on a 1908 play by William J. Hurlbut that was produced by David Belasco.
Incomplete surviving film at BFI Institute (London).<ref>[http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.249/default.html The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog : ''The Fighting Hope'']</ref>
==Cast== *George Gebhardt – Robert Granger *Laura Hope Crews – Anna Granger<ref name="Liebman2017">{{cite book|author=Roy Liebman|title=Broadway Actors in Films, 1894_ÑÐ2015|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DPQHDgAAQBAJ&pg=PA63|date=31 January 2017|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-1-4766-2615-4|pages=63–}}</ref> *Gerald Ward – Robert Harold Granger *Thomas Meighan – Burton Temple *Richard Morris – Craven *Florence Smythe – Miss Gorham *Theodore Roberts – Cornelius Brady *Cleo Ridgely – Rose Fanchom *Tom Forman – Detective Clark *William Elmer – Detective Fletcher
==Plot== A man has been convicted of fraud, but his wife believes he is innocent and sets out to prove it.<ref>{{cite book|title=To-day's Cinema News and Property Gazette|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OGlJAQAAMAAJ|year=1915|publisher=Amer. Company, Limited|pages=33, 73}}</ref>
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==External links== *[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0005323/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 The Fighting Hope @ IMDb.com] *[http://ibdb.com/show.php?id=3528 ''The Fighting Hope'' as produced on Broadway, Stuyvesant Theater, September 22 1908; IBDb.com]
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