As Man Desires

As Man Desires
As Man Desires
	Still with Clifford and Cummings
Directed by	Irving Cummings
Written by	Marion Orth (scenario); Earl Hudson (adaptation); Marion Fairfax
Starring	Viola Dana; Milton Sills
Cinematography	Roy Carpenter
Edited by	Charles Hunt
Production; company	First National Pictures
Distributed by	First National Pictures
Release date	January 11, 1925;
Running time	80 minutes; 8 reels (7,790 feet)
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

As Man Desires is a lost 1925 American silent drama film directed by Irving Cummings and starring Viola Dana. It was produced and distributed by First National Pictures.^[1]^[2]

Plot

As described in a review in a film magazine,^[3] Major John Craig (Sills) knocks out Colonel Carringford (Nicholson) when he discovers Gloria Gordon (Clifford), his fiancée, has been untrue. Carringford is then murdered by a servant and because Evelyn Beaudine (Theby), a married woman of unsavory reputation, accuses him of the crime, Craig is forced to flee from his British Army post in India. Craig procures a fishing smack and amasses wealth from working pearl beds in the South Seas. He tenders Gorilla Bagsley (Kennedy), a poacher a beating when he finds him annoying Pandora (Dana). She now feels that Craig is "her man" and, to spite the memory of the other woman, he marries her. A seaman identifies Craig and notifies the British government. Gloria comes with the representative who tells Craig that Gloria had sacrificed her own reputation to prove his innocence. Gorilla, intending to kill Craig, levels a gun towards his back but Pandora jumps in the way as it is fired. Craig and Gloria are thus united.