As Man Desires
{{short description|1925 film by Irving Cummings}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=September 2020}}
{{infobox film
| name = As Man Desires
| image = As Man Desires (SAYRE 14442).jpg
| caption = Still with Clifford and Cummings
| director = Irving Cummings
| producer =
| writer = Marion Orth (scenario)
Earl Hudson (adaptation)
Marion Fairfax
| starring = Viola Dana
Milton Sills
| music =
| cinematography = Roy Carpenter
| editing = Charles Hunt
| studio = First National Pictures
| distributor = First National Pictures
| released = {{film date|1925|1|11}}
| runtime = 80 minutes; 8 reels (7,790 feet)
| country = United States
| language = Silent (English intertitles)
}}
As Man Desires is a lost 1925 American silent drama film directed by Irving Cummings and starring Viola Dana. It was produced and distributed by First National Pictures.{{Cite web|url=http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=2640|title=The AFI Catalog of Feature Films: As Man Desires|website=www.afi.com|accessdate=June 9, 2024}}{{cite web|url=http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/A/AsManDesires1925.html |title=Progressive Silent Film List: As Man Desires|website= silentera.com}}
Plot
As described in a review in a film magazine,{{cite journal |last=Waller |first=Tom |author-link= |title=As Man Desires; Milton Sills and Viola Dana Featured in Entertaining First National Melodrama |journal=The Moving Picture World |volume=72 |issue=5 |pages=447–448 |publisher=Chalmers Publishing Co. |location=New York City |date=31 January 1925 |url=https://archive.org/details/movingpicturewor72janf/page/447/mode/1up |access-date=7 August 2021}} Major John Craig (Sills) knocks out Colonel Carringford (Nicholson) when he discovers Gloria Gordon (Clifford), his fiancée, has been untrue. Carringford is then murdered by a servant and because Evelyn Beaudine (Theby), a married woman of unsavory reputation, accuses him of the crime, Craig is forced to flee from his British Army post in India. Craig procures a fishing smack and amasses wealth from working pearl beds in the South Seas. He tenders Gorilla Bagsley (Kennedy), a poacher a beating when he finds him annoying Pandora (Dana). She now feels that Craig is "her man" and, to spite the memory of the other woman, he marries her. A seaman identifies Craig and notifies the British government. Gloria comes with the representative who tells Craig that Gloria had sacrificed her own reputation to prove his innocence. Gorilla, intending to kill Craig, levels a gun towards his back but Pandora jumps in the way as it is fired. Craig and Gloria are thus united.
Cast
{{Cast listing|
- Milton Sills as Major John Craig
- Viola Dana as Pandora La Croix
- Ruth Clifford as Gloria Gordon
- Rosemary Theby as Evelyn Beaudine
- Irving Cummings as Major Singh
- Paul Nicholson as Colonel Carringford
- Tom Kennedy as Gorilla Bagsley
- Hector Sarno as Toni
- Louis Payne as Major Gridley
- Anna Mae Walthall as The Duchess
- Edneh Altemus as Camille
- Frank Leigh as Watkins
- Robert St. Angelo as Extra (uncredited)
}}
Preservation
With no prints of As Man Desires located in any film archives,[http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.3501/default.html The Library of Congress/FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: As Man Desires] it is a lost film.{{Cite web|url=http://www.silentsaregolden.com/arnefirstnational.html|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303225105/http://www.silentsaregolden.com/arnefirstnational.html|url-status=dead|title=Lost Film Files - First National|archivedate=March 3, 2016|website=www.silentsaregolden.com|accessdate=June 9, 2024}}
References
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External links
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- {{IMDb title|0015579}}
- Pandora La Croix a 1924 novel by Gene Wright
{{Irving Cummings}}
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Category:1925 romantic drama films
Category:1920s English-language films
Category:American black-and-white films
Category:American silent feature films
Category:English-language romantic drama films
Category:Films directed by Irving Cummings
Category:First National Pictures films
Category:Lost American romantic drama films
Category:Silent American romantic drama films
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