Fighting Odds

{{short description|1917 film by Allan Dwan}}

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{{infobox film

| name = Fighting Odds

| image = Fighting Odds (motion picture advertisement, 1917).jpg

| caption =

| director = Allan Dwan

| producer = Arthur Hopkins{{cite web |url=https://catalog.afi.com/Film/16905-FIGHTING-ODDS |title=Fighting Odds |work=AFI Catalog of Feature Films |access-date=November 27, 2023}}

| based_on = {{based on|Under Sentence|Irvin S. Cobb and Roi Cooper Megrue}}

| starring = Maxine Elliott

| music =

| cinematography = René Guissart

| editing =

| distributor = Goldwyn Pictures

| released = {{Film date|1917|9|30}}

| runtime = 6 reels

| country = United States

| language = Silent (English intertitles)

}}

File:Maxine Elliot in a scene from "Fighting Odds" (SAYRE 13543).jpg

Fighting Odds is a 1917 American silent drama film produced and distributed by Goldwyn Pictures and starring stage beauty Maxine Elliott. The film is based on the play Under Sentence by Irvin S. Cobb and Roi Cooper Megrue. The picture was amongst Goldwyn's first productions as an independent producer. It was directed by veteran Allan Dwan and is a surviving film at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and Gosfilmofond in Russia.The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1911-20 by The American Film Institute, c. 1988[http://ibdb.com/show.php?id=9002 Fighting Odds produced as Under Sentence on Broadway at the Harris Theatre, October 3, 1916 to November 1916, 55 performances; IBDb.com][http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.2836/default.html The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: Fighting Odds]