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A Man Must Live
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Still with Richard Dix and Jacqueline Logan
Directed by Paul Sloane
Screenplay by James Ashmore Creelman
Based onJungle Law
by I. A. R. Wylie
Produced by Jesse L. Lasky
Adolph Zukor
Starring Richard Dix
Jacqueline Logan
George Nash
Edna Murphy
Cinematography Harold Rosson
Production
company
Distributed by Paramount Pictures
Release date
  • January 19, 1925 (1925-01-19)
Running time
70 minutes
CountryUnited States
Language Silent (English intertitles)

A Man Must Live is a 1925 American silent adventure film directed by Paul Sloane and written by James Ashmore Creelman based upon the novel Jungle Law by I. A. R. Wylie. The film stars Richard Dix, Jacqueline Logan, George Nash, Edna Murphy, Charles Byer, and Dorothy Walters. The film was released on January 19, 1925, by Paramount Pictures. [1] [2] [3]

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Plot

As described in a review in a film magazine, [4] back from World War I and finding a soldier's welcome, Geoffrey Farnell (Dix), while waiting the outcome of a lawsuit against a corporation, finds an uncongenial place on the staff of a scandal-hunting newspaper. Editor Job Hardcastle (Nash) gives Geoffrey a warning that his stories lack the hectic pep that his readers demand. He is sent to find a racy society divorcee 'Mops' Collins (Logan) who has sunk to the level of working as a cabaret dancer at a cheap concert hall. He finds her begging the manager (Ricciardi) not to send her off to a hospital to die. Geoffrey is touched with pity, and when she staggers to the street in her scanty stage costume, he takes her to his apartment. Reporting a failure to get the story to Hardcastle, he promises that he will turn up a real story if given one more chance. He finds this chance when a war-time buddy Clive Ross-Fayne (Beyer), shell shocked and devoid of recollection of his personality, is brought into court on charges of being a dope peddler. Believed to be dead and posthumously decorated for valor, it would make a sensation to identify this wreck as the lamented hero. However, Geoffrey loves the man's sister Eleanor (Murphy). He holds off until he is forced to give up the story to obtain the money that will keep his helpless charge out of the hospital. Then, in a fit of remorse, he seeks to stop publication of the story with a fight, but in vain. As he faces arrest for his assault on the editor, the young woman comes to denounce him, and the friendless waif lies dead in the next room. In an irony of fate, his suit is settled and he comes into his fortune too late to prevent his shame. However, Eleanor understands, the editor is abashed, and the happy ending comes at last.

Cast

Preservation

With no prints of A Man Must Live located in any film archives, [5] it is a lost film.

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References

  1. ↑ Janiss Garza (2015). "Man-Must-Live - Trailer - Cast - Showtimes - NYTimes.com". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times . Archived from the original on February 4, 2015. Retrieved February 4, 2015.
  2. ↑ "A Man Must Live". afi.com. Retrieved February 4, 2015.
  3. ↑ Progressive Silent Film List: A Man Must Live at silentera.com
  4. ↑ Sargent, Epes W. (February 7, 1925). "A Man Must Live; Richard Dis Has Powerful Vehicle for his Second Paramount Star Picture". The Moving Picture World. 72 (6). New York City: Chalmers Publishing Co.: 557. Retrieved August 21, 2021.
  5. ↑ Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: A Man Must Live


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