Fighting for Love

The 36 year old Noble Johnson continued his acting career by acting in this film, 'Fighting for Love' which did not interest me at all. The fact that he was around inspired me because he rivaled Charles Chaplin, and then went on to set up his own production company.

Raymond Wells, who wrote and directed this five-reel feature, must be given credit for a daring and novel conception, and one which in presentation infuses new life into an old situation, he tells of a cowboy-mining man who goes to Europe and falls in love with the queen of a small principality. He has nothing to go on but his nerve, a well-filled pocketbook and a broad grin, but in spite of his uncouth ways he "cops" the queen. To successfully carry out this coup, he brings over a band of cowboys to fight for the lady on her own soil. The battle scenes, pictured in the closing reel, are staged on a big scale and must be regarded as the strongest feature of the production. The idea itself is a little slow in impressing the observer, as it seems at first to be merely another "Yankee in King Arthur's Court," but presently the plot unfolds, and when the cowboy actually climbs the high wall and makes advances to the queen the interest increases. The good work of Jack Mulhall and Ruth Stonehouse in the leading roles does much to carry these situations through. The general atmosphere of the production is marred by a jumble of costumes of different nationalities and architecture of varying types. This would have affected a serious type of story to a considerable extent and does not help even an amusing yarn of this sort. – The Moving Picture World, January 13, 1917