The Fighting Heart (1925 film)

{{Infobox film

| name = The Fighting Heart

| image = The Fighting Heart FilmPoster.jpeg

| caption = Film poster

| director = John Ford

| producer =

| writer = Lillie Hayward

| based_on = {{basedon|Once to Every Man|Larry Evans}}

| starring = George O'Brien
Billie Dove

| cinematography = Joseph H. August

| editing =

| distributor = Fox Film Corporation

| released = {{film date|1925|10|18}}

| runtime = 70 minutes

| country = United States

| language = Silent (English intertitles)

}}

The Fighting Heart is a lost 1925 American silent drama film directed by John Ford.{{cite web |url=http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/F/FightingHeart1925.html |title=Progressive Silent Film List: The Fighting Heart |access-date=March 6, 2008|work=silentera.com}}

Plot

As described in a film magazine review,{{Citation |title=New Pictures: The Fighting Heart |journal=Exhibitors Herald |volume=23 |issue=4 |pages=51 |date=17 October 1925 |publisher=Exhibitors Herald Company |location=Chicago, Illinois |url=https://archive.org/details/exhibitorsherald22unse/page/464/mode/1up |access-date=18 October 2022}} {{Source-attribution}} a young man with an inheritance of alcoholism whips a prize fighter in a street fight but falls from his sweetheart’s graces. He goes to New York City and is beaten in a fight in the ring. Later, he whips the fighter again outside the ring and, having left off drinking, is now accepted by the young woman.

Cast

{{Cast listing|

George O'Brien as Denny Bolton
Billie Dove as Doris Anderson
J. Farrell MacDonald as Jerry
Victor McLaglen as Soapy Williams
Diana Miller as Helen Van Allen
Bert Woodruff as Grandfather
Francis Ford as Town Fool
Hazel Howell as Oklahoma Kate
Edward Peil Sr. as Flash Fogarty (credited as Edward Piel)
James A. Marcus as Judge Maynard (credited as James Marcus)
Frank Baker
Harvey Clark
Lynn Cowan
Hank Mann
Francis Powers

}}

Preservation

With no prints of The Fighting Heart located in any film archives,{{cite web |url=http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.5228/default.html |title=The Fighting Heart |access-date=January 10, 2014 |work=American Silent Feature Film Survival Database}} it is now considered to be a lost film.