''A Fighting Heart'' is a 1924 American silent

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directed by Jack Nelson and starring

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, Margaret Landis and

Otto Lederer Otto Lederer (May 17, 1886 – September 3, 1965) was a Czech-American film actor. He appeared in 120 films between 1912 and 1933, most notably ''The Jazz Singer'', the first full-length film to have sound sequences, and the Laurel and Har ...

.Connelly p.347

Cast

as Jack Melford * Margaret Landis as Rae Davis *

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as Cloudy Day * May Sherman as Julia Cunningham *

as Dr. Logan *

Alphonse Martell Alphonse Martell (1890 - 1976) was a French actor who wrote and directed '' Gigolettes of Paris'' (1933). He portrayed a director in the 1934 film '' I'll Be Suing You''. He often portrayed a waiter as in the 1946 film '' Falcon's Alibi'', in which ...

as Dr. Dehli * Cathleen Calhoun as Blanche Renault

References

Bibliography

* Connelly, Robert B. ''The Silents: Silent Feature Films, 1910-36, Volume 40, Issue 2''. December Press, 1998. * Munden, Kenneth White. ''The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1''. University of California Press, 1997.

External links

* 1924 films 1920s action films American silent feature films Silent American action films American black-and-white films Films directed by Jack Nelson 1920s English-language films 1920s American films English-language action films {{1920s-US-film-stub