A growing source of silent era film information. This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett. Copyright © 1999-2024 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company. All Rights Reserved.

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The Sporting Lover
(1926) United States of America
B&W : Seven reels / 6642 feet
Directed by Alan Hale

Cast: Conway Tearle [Captain Terance Connaughton], Barbara Bedford [Lady Gwendolyn Cavens], Ward Crane [Captain Sir Phillip Barton], Arthur Rankin [Algernon Cavens], Charles McHugh [Paddy, Connaughton’s servant], John Fox Jr. [Aloysius Patrick O’Brien, his son], Bodil Rosing [Nora O’Brien], George Ovey [a jockey]

Faultless Pictures production; distributed by First National Pictures, Incorporated. / Scenario by Carey Wilson, from the novel Good Luck by Seymour Hicks. Production management by Ben Verschleiser. Art direction by Horace Jackson. Cinematography by Faxon M. Dean and Robert Newhard. Film editor, Edward M. Roskam. Intertitles written by Malcolm Stuart Boylan. Presented by E.M. Asher and Edward Small. / © 2 June 1926 by Faultless Pictures [LP22792]. Released 17 June 1926. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.

Drama: Romance.

Survival status: The film is presumed lost.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Animals: Horses

Listing updated: 4 December 2023.

References: Website-AFI; Website-ASFFDb.