Fighting Odds

Fighting Odds is a 1917 American silent drama film produced and distributed by Goldwyn Pictures and starring stage beauty Maxine Elliott.

The film is based on the play Under Sentence by Irvin S. Cobb and Roi Cooper Megrue.

It was directed by veteran Allan Dwan and is a surviving film at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and Gosfilmofond in Russia.

[2][3][4] As described in a film magazine,[5] James Copley (Clive), through his generosity to his employees, wins their confidence and the enmity of John W. Blake (Dalton), known as a breaker of men and fortunes.

Through the old method of vampiring, Mrs. Copley succeeds in securing the evidence that frees her husband and puts Blake behind bars.

Maxine Elliot in a scene from "Fighting Odds"