The Fighting Heart is a lost 1925 American silent drama film directed by John Ford.
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Plot
As described in a film magazine review, a young man with an inheritance of alcoholism whips a prize fighter in a street fight but falls from his sweetheart’s graces. He goes to New York City and is beaten in a fight in the ring. Later, he whips the fighter again outside the ring and, having left off drinking, is now accepted by the young woman.
Censorship
Before The Fighting Heart could be exhibited in Kansas, the Kansas Board of Review required the removal of several scenes and one intertitle. The scenes eliminated included most of the drinking, close-ups of "Demijohn", and "suggestion with baby," and the intertitle removed said "Soapy Williams, who runs the hotel, is a wise bootlegger - he never drinks."
Preservation
With no prints of The Fighting Heart located in any film archives, it is now considered to be a lost film.