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The Fighting Chance (1955 film)

1955 film by William Witney

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 20, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

The Fighting Chance is a 1955 American drama film directed by William Witney and written by Houston Branch. The film stars Rod Cameron, Julie London, Ben Cooper, Taylor Holmes, Howard Wendell and Mel Welles. The film was released on December 15, 1955, by Republic Pictures.

Editorial summary

“The Fighting Chance (1955 film)” enters the record as 1955 film by William Witney. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Fighting, Chance and film can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1955—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Fighting, Chance and film.
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Why this record matters

“The Fighting Chance (1955 film)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Fighting, Chance and film provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 20, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1955.

Critical limits

Rights, attribution and provenance may remain disputed even when a general reference summary presents a stable account. 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 “The Fighting Chance (1955 film)” 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.