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A Fight for Honor

film

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 8, 2026
Entity authorityQ102036306 ↗
Source-derived summary

A Fight for Honor is a lost 1924 American silent action film directed by Henry MacRae and starring William Fairbanks, Eva Novak and Claire McDowell.

Cast

William Fairbanks as Jack Adams

Eva Novak as Margaret Hill

Claire McDowell as Mrs. Hill

Jack Byron as Walter Bradson

Marion Harlan as Mary Hill

Derry Welford as Gertie Gilson

Wilfred Lucas as Tom Grady

References

Bibliography

Robert B. Connelly. The Silents: Silent Feature Films, 1910-36, Volume 40, Issue 2. December Press, 1998.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “A Fight for Honor” as film. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Fight, Honor and film.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1924, 1910, 1998—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Fight, Honor and film providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

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Evidence profile

Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 8, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q102036306. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1924, 1910 and 1998.

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Titles can refer to several editions, objects or performances, making precise identification essential before interpretation. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “A Fight for Honor” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.