The Sporting Life (1925 film)
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The Sporting Life | |
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Directed by | Maurice Tourneur |
Produced by | Universal |
Written by | Seymour Hicks(play) Cecil Raleigh |
Starring | Bert Lytell |
Cinematography | Arthur L. Todd |
Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
Release dates
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November 29, 1925 |
Running time
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7 reels(6,709 feet) |
Country | United States |
Language | Silent |
The Sporting Life is a 1925 silent comedy drama directed by Maurice Tourneur and a remake of Tourneur's 1918 film of the same title based on Seymour Hicks's popular play. Universal Pictures produced and released the film. .[1][2][3]
Once thought lost, it survives at UCLA Film and Television Archive.[4]
Cast
- Bert Lytell - Lord Woodstock
- Marian Nixon - Nora Cavanaugh
- Paulette Duval - Olive Carteret
- Cyril Chadwick - Phillips, Lord Wainwright
- Charles Delaney - Joe Lee
- George Siegmann - Limhouse Dan Crippen
- Oliver Eckhardt - Jim Cavanaugh
- Ena Gregory - Peggy, a Chorus Girl
- Kathleen Clifford - Molly McGuire, A Chorus Girl
- Frank Finch Smiles - Boxer
- Ted "Kid" Lewis - Gunner Crake, Boxer
unbilled
- Arthur Lake - Peggy's Admirer in Audience
- Myrna Loy - Chorus Girl with Lord Wainwright
- Lafe McKee - Stage Doorman
- Broderick O'Farrell - Race Track Official
References
- ↑ The Sporting Life at silentera.com
- ↑ The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1921-30 by The American Film Institute, c. 1971
- ↑ Maurice Tourneur: The Life and Times by Harry Waldman, c.2001
- ↑ The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: The Sporting Life
External links
- The Sporting Life ; IMDb.com
- The Sporting Life; allmovie.com/synopsis
- lobby poster The Sporting Life
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Categories:
- Silent films
- 1925 films
- American silent feature films
- American films
- Films directed by Maurice Tourneur
- Lost films
- Films set in England
- Films set in London
- Films based on plays
- 1920s comedy-drama films
- American comedy-drama films
- Universal Pictures films
- American black-and-white films
- Silent comedy-drama film stubs