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The Fight for Life

1940 film by Pare Lorentz
Movie film Q15850483
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Summary

The Fight for Life is a film[1]. It ranks in the top 4% of film entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (62 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Director: Pare Lorentz[3]
  • Screenwriter: Pare Lorentz[4]
  • Composer: Louis Gruenberg[5]
  • Genre: drama film[6], documentary film[7]
  • Cast member: Myron McCormick[8], Will Geer[9], Dudley Digges[10], Dorothy Adams[11]
  • Director of photography: Floyd Crosby[12]
  • Original language of film or TV show: English[13]
  • Color: color[14], black-and-white[15]
  • Country of origin: United States[16]
  • Publication date: 1940[17]
  • Distributed by: Columbia Pictures[18]
  • Described by source: 'Items for criticism (not in sequence)': Joseph DeLee, Pare Lorentz and The Fight for Life (1940).[19]
  • Nominated for: Academy Award for Best Original Score[20]
  • Title: The Fight for Life[21]
  • Duration: 69 minutes[22]

Why It Matters

The Fight for Life is known by 4 alternative names across languages and contexts.[23]

Related Entities

film United States

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . imdb.com. Retrieved . imdb.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  5. [7] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [23] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 6d ago · Quesotiotyo · 2026-10-15 view diff on Wikidata ↗
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    Screenwriter → Pare Lorentz
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