# The Fighting Hope

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{{short description|1915 film by George Melford}}
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{{infobox film
| name           = The Fighting Hope
| image          = The Fighting Hope - newspaperscene - 1915.jpg
| caption        = Scene from the film
| director       = [George Melford](/source/George_Melford)
| producer       = [Jesse Lasky](/source/Jesse_Lasky)
| writer         = [Margaret Turnbull](/source/Margaret_Turnbull_(screenwriter)) (scenario)
| based_on       = {{based on|''The Fighting Hope'' (play)|[William J. Hurlbut](/source/William_J._Hurlbut)}}
| starring       = [Laura Hope Crews](/source/Laura_Hope_Crews)
| music          = 
| cinematography = 
| editing        = 
| distributor    = [Paramount Pictures](/source/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](/source/George_Melford) and starring [Thomas Meighan](/source/Thomas_Meighan) and [Laura Hope Crews](/source/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](/source/Jesse_Lasky) produced and [Paramount Pictures](/source/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](/source/William_J._Hurlbut) that was produced by [David Belasco](/source/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](/source/George_Gebhardt) – Robert Granger
*[Laura Hope Crews](/source/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](/source/Thomas_Meighan) – Burton Temple
*[Richard Morris](/source/Richard_Morris_(actor)) – Craven
*[Florence Smythe](/source/Florence_Smythe) – Miss Gorham
*[Theodore Roberts](/source/Theodore_Roberts) – Cornelius Brady
*[Cleo Ridgely](/source/Cleo_Ridgely) – Rose Fanchom
*[Tom Forman](/source/Tom_Forman_(actor)) – Detective Clark
*[William Elmer](/source/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>

==References==
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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]

{{George Melford}}

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Category:1915 films
Category:American silent feature films
Category:Films directed by George Melford
Category:Paramount Pictures films
Category:American films based on plays
Category:1915 drama films
Category:American black-and-white films
Category:American silent drama films
Category:1915 American films
Category:1915 English-language films

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