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In the Name of Love (1925 film)

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In the Name of Love
Richard Arlen, Greta Nissen, and Ricardo Cortez in In the Name of Love
Directed byHoward Higgin
Screenplay bySada Cowan
Based onThe Lady of Lyons by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Produced byJesse L. Lasky
Adolph Zukor
StarringRicardo Cortez
Greta Nissen
Wallace Beery
Raymond Hatton
Lillian Leighton
Edythe Chapman
Richard Arlen
CinematographyCharles Edgar Schoenbaum
Production
company
Distributed byParamount Pictures
Release date
  • August 10, 1925 (1925-08-10)
Running time
60 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent (English intertitles)

In the Name of Love is a 1925 American silent comedy film directed by Howard Higgin and written by Sada Cowan. It is based on the play The Lady of Lyons by Edward Bulwer-Lytton. It stars Ricardo Cortez, Greta Nissen, Wallace Beery, Raymond Hatton, Lillian Leighton, Edythe Chapman, and Richard Arlen. It was released on August 10, 1925 by Paramount Pictures.[1][2]

Plot

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As described in a film magazine advertisement,[3] young Frenchman Raoul Melnotte, leaving his boyhood sweetheart Marie behind, goes to America to make his fortune. Marie promises to wait for him. Ten years later he returns to France, his fortune still unmade. Marie, however, has grown rich and snobbish. Hosts of men have made love to her, but her heart is set upon meeting a Prince of Como, who is visiting France, and will have nothing to do with Raoul. Glavis and the Marquis de Beausant, who have been lilted by the coquettish Marie, suggest to Raoul that he masquerade as the Prince of Como, marry Marie, and then humiliate her. He carries through the plan, and she weds him. When she finds out that she has been tricked, she is furious. Her brother Dumas, discovering the fraud, attacks Raoul and is about to kill him when Marie, realizing that she loves the masquerader in spite of everything, saves his life.

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Preservation

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With no prints of In the Name of Love located in any film archives,[4] it is a lost film.[5]

References

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  1. ^ "In the Name of Love". afi.com. Retrieved February 6, 2015.
  2. ^ "In the Name of Love (1925) - Overview - TCM.com". Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved February 6, 2015.
  3. ^ "Paramount Pictures advertisement: In the Name of Love", Exhibitors Herald, 21 (8): insert after p. 50, May 16, 1925, retrieved February 11, 2022 Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  4. ^ The Library of Congress / FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: In the Name of Love
  5. ^ "In the Name of Love at Arn Andersen's Lost Film Files:lost Paramount films of - 1925". Archived from the original on August 22, 2015. Retrieved January 22, 2018.
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