Sporting Life (1925 film)

Sporting Life
Sporting Life
	Lobby card
Directed by	Maurice Tourneur
Written by	Cecil Raleigh
Based on	Sporting Life; by Seymour Hicks and Cecil Raleigh
Produced by	Carl Laemmle
Starring	Bert Lytell
Cinematography	Arthur L. Todd
Distributed by	Universal Pictures
Release date	November 25, 1925;
Running time	7 reels (6,709 feet) (c.70 min.)
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

Sporting Life is a 1925 American silent comedy drama film 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]

Plot

As described in a film magazine review,^[4] Lord Woodstock loses money as the backer of a musical show and hopes to recoup his losses by betting on his protégé, Joe Lee, a pugilist, and by winning the Derby with his horse, Lady Love. Olive Carteret, an actress, tries to win Woodstock, but he is in love with Nora, the daughter of his trainer. Olive conspires with Phillips, a gambler, to break him. On the night of the fight Lee is drugged. Woodstock takes his place in the ring and wins. Phillips kidnaps Nora, and Woodstock and Lee are imprisoned when they go to the rescue. They escape shortly before the race, but Lee is killed. Lady Love wins the race, and after Phillips is arrested for Lee’s murder, Woodstock and Nora are free to marry.

Cast

Bert Lytell as Lord Woodstock
Marian Nixon as Nora Cavanaugh
Paulette Duval as Olive Carteret
Cyril Chadwick as Phillips, Lord Wainwright
Charles Delaney as Joe Lee
George Siegmann as Limhouse Dan Crippen
Oliver Eckhardt as Jim Cavanaugh
Ena Gregory as Peggy, a Chorus Girl
Kathleen Clifford as Molly McGuire, A Chorus Girl
Frank Finch Smiles as Boxer
Ted "Kid" Lewis as Gunner Crake, Boxer
Arthur Lake as Peggy's Admirer in Audience (uncredited)
Myrna Loy as Chorus Girl with Lord Wainwright (uncredited)
Lafe McKee as Stage Doorman (uncredited)
Broderick O'Farrell as Race Track Official (uncredited)

Preservation

Once thought lost, a print of Sporting Life survives at UCLA Film and Television Archive.^[5]

References

^ Progressive Silent Film List: The Sporting Life at silentera.com
^ The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1921-30 by The American Film Institute, c. 1971
^ Waldman, Harry (2001), Maurice Tourneur: The Life and Times, McFarland ISBN 0-7864-0957-6
^ "New Pictures: Sporting Life", Exhibitors Herald, 23 (3), Chicago, Illinois: Exhibitors Herald Company: 59, October 10, 1925, retrieved October 9, 2022 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
^ The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: The Sporting Life

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[1] Progressive Silent Film List: The Sporting Life at silentera.com

[2] The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1921-30 by The American Film Institute, c. 1971

[3] Waldman, Harry (2001), Maurice Tourneur: The Life and Times, McFarland ISBN 0-7864-0957-6

[4] "New Pictures: Sporting Life", Exhibitors Herald, 23 (3), Chicago, Illinois: Exhibitors Herald Company: 59, October 10, 1925, retrieved October 9, 2022 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

[5] The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: The Sporting Life

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