The Right to Love (1920 film)

For other uses, see Right to Love (disambiguation).

The Right to Love is a 1920 American silent drama film directed by George Fitzmaurice. It stars Mae Murray, David Powell and Holmes Herbert. The film is based on the French novel L'Homme qui assassina, by Claude Farrère and the play of the same name by Pierre Frondaie.^[1][2]

The Right to Love
Still from the film with Mae Murray printed in a 1920 issue of Motion Picture News
Directed by	George Fitzmaurice
Written by	Ouida Bergère
Based on	L'Homme qui assassina by Claude Farrère L'Homme qui assassina by Pierre Frondaie
Produced by	Adolph Zukor
Starring	Mae Murray David Powell Holmes Herbert
Cinematography	Arthur C. Miller
Production company	Famous Players–Lasky
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date	September 5, 1920 (1920-09-05)
Running time	70 minutes
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

Location shooting for the film was done in Miami, Florida and the Florida Keys.^[3]

Plot

As described in a film magazine,^[4] summoned in her desperation to help her in her anguish at the threatened separation from her child, American soldier Colonel Richard Loring (Powell) is witness to the blackguard conspiracy of Lord Archibald Falkland (Herbert) to dishonor his wife. Lady Falkland (Murray) married the English ambassador to Turkey to satisfy her father's greed for wealth, and was a youthful sweetheart of Loring's in America. Their romance was shattered by her enforced marriage to the Ambassador, who insists on keeping in their home in Constantinople his mistress Lady Edith (Tell), an English woman. These two plot the compromise of the wife in a situation with Prince Cerniwicz (Harlam) and her separation from her boy Little Archibald (Johnson), and the outcome is the murder of Lord Falkland by the Colonel. Because of a remembered obligation, a Turkish nobleman (Losee) throws the guilt from Loring and the two lovers are reunited.

Lobby card

Cast

• Mae Murray as Lady Falkland
• David Powell as Colonel Richard Loring
• Holmes Herbert as Lord Archibald Falkland
• Alma Tell as Lady Edith
• Frank Losee as Marshal to the Sultan
• Macey Harlam as Prince Stanislaus Cerniwicz
• Marcia Harris as Governess
• Lawrence Johnson as Little Archibald

Preservation

A complete print of The Right to Love is held by the EYE Filmmuseum in Amsterdam.^[5]

See also

• Stamboul (1931)
• The Man Who Murdered (1931)