The Sporting Life (1918 film)

The Sporting Life
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Directed by	Maurice Tourneur
Produced by	Maurice Tourneur
Written by	Seymour Hicks (play) Cecil Raleigh (play) Winthrop Kelley (scenario)
Starring	Constance Binney Faire Binney
Cinematography	John van den Broek
Distributed by	State's Rights: Hiller & Wilk
Release dates	September 15, 1918 (NYC premiere)
Running time	7 reels (6,032 feet)
Country	United States
Language	Silent film (English intertitles)

The Sporting Life is a lost^[1] 1918 silent film drama directed by Maurice Tourneur. It is the first film for sisters Faire Binney and Constance Binney, from the Broadway stage. Tourneur would re-film this story again in 1925.^[2]^[3]

Cast

Ralph Graves - John, Earl of Woodstock
Warner Richmond - Joe Lee
Charles Eldridge - Miles Cavanagh
Charles Craig - Malet de Carteret
Henry West - Straker
Constance Binney - Norah Cavanagh
Faire Binney - Kitty Cavanagh
Willette Kershaw - Olive de Carteret
Harry Harris - Crake
Eddie Kelly - Woodstock
Clara Beyers - ?

References

↑ The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: The Sporting Life
↑ The Sporting Life at silentera.com
↑ Maurice Tourneur: The Life and Films by Harry Waldman c.2001

External links

Films directed by Maurice Tourneur

1910s	Jean la Poudre (1912) Mother (1914) The Man of the Hour (1914) The Wishing Ring: An Idyll of Old England (1914) The Pit (1914) Alias Jimmy Valentine (1915) Trilby (1915) The Cub (1915) The Ivory Snuff Box (1915) The Butterfly on the Wheel (1915) The Pawn of Fate (1915) The Hand of Peril (1916) The Closed Road (1916) The Velvet Paw (1916) The Rail Rider (1916) A Girl's Folly (1916) The Whip (1917) The Undying Flame (1917) Exile (1917) The Law of the Land (1917) The Pride of the Clan (1917) The Poor Little Rich Girl (1917) Barbary Sheep (1917) The Rise of Jennie Cushing (1917) Rose of the World (1917) The Blue Bird (1918) Prunella (1918) A Doll's House (1918) The Sporting Life (1918) Woman (1918) My Lady's Garter (1919) The White Heather (1919) The Life Line (1919) Victory (1919) The Broken Butterfly (1919)

1920s	The County Fair (1920) The Great Redeemer (1920) While Paris Sleeps (1920) Treasure Island (1920) The White Circle (1920) Deep Waters (1920) The Last of the Mohicans (1920) The Bait (1921) Foolish Matrons (1921) Lorna Doone (1922) The Brass Bottle (1923) The Christian (1923) The Isle of Lost Ships (1923) Jealous Husbands (1923) Torment (1924) The White Moth (1924) The Sporting Life (1925) Never the Twain Shall Meet (1925) Aloma of the South Seas (1926) Old Loves and New (1926)

1930s	Accusée, levez-vous! (1930) Les Gaietés de l'escadron (1932) L'Homme mystérieux (1933) Justin de Marseille (1934) Le Voleur (1934) Koenigsmark (1935) Samson (1936) With a Smile (1936) The Patriot (1938) Katia (1938)

1940s	Volpone (1941) La Min du diable (1943) Cécile est morte (1944) Après l'amour (1948)