The Only Thing (also known under its working title Four Flaming Days) is a 1925 American silent romantic drama film starring Eleanor Boardman.

[1] It was the first film Jack Conway directed for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer where he remained for until his retirement in 1948.

[3] As described in a review in a film magazine,[4] a handsome and titled Englishman visits a Balkan kingdom and falls madly in love with a young princess who has come to marry the elderly, grouchy, and ugly king.

A revolution occurs and the hero, when he finds that death has been decreed for all aristocrats, who are tied in pairs and send out to drown in leaky barges, contrives to be paired with her.

A complete print of The Only Thing is held in the George Eastman Museum Motion Picture Collection.