# In the Name of Love (1925 film)

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1925 film

In the Name of Love
Richard Arlen, Greta Nissen, and Ricardo Cortez in In the Name of Love
Directed by | Howard Higgin
Screenplay by | Sada Cowan
Based on | The Lady of Lyons by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Produced by | Jesse L. Lasky Adolph Zukor
Starring | Ricardo Cortez Greta Nissen Wallace Beery Raymond Hatton Lillian Leighton Edythe Chapman Richard Arlen
Cinematography | Charles Edgar Schoenbaum
Production company | Famous Players-Lasky Corporation
Distributed by | Paramount Pictures

Release date

- August 10, 1925 (1925-08-10)

Running time | 60 minutes
Country | United States
Language | Silent (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[ edit ]

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.

## Cast[ edit ]

- Ricardo Cortez as Raoul Melnotte
- Greta Nissen as Marie Dufrayne
- Wallace Beery as Glavis
- Raymond Hatton as Marquis de Beausant
- Lillian Leighton as Mother Dufrayne
- Edythe Chapman as Mother Melnotte
- Richard Arlen as Dumas Dufrayne

## Preservation[ edit ]

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

## References[ edit ]

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 (08): insert after p. 50, May 16, 1925, retrieved February 11, 2022 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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