title: Free to Love
text: # Free to Love
  
  Free to Love is a 1925 American silent drama film directed by Frank O'Connor. The film stars Clara Bow and Donald Keith.
  
  ## Plot
  
  As described in a film magazine review, after threatening him with a gun but relenting, Marie Anthony, who was recently released from a reformatory, is adopted by Judge Orr and becomes the fiancée of the young minister James Crawford, who intends to assist former convicts. Gang leader Jack Garner, who threatens to disclose what he knows of her past, succeeds in temporarily separating the lovers. Tony, a hunchback that Marie has befriended, warns her that Crawford's father is a confederate of criminals. Trying to shield the latter, Marie is arrested and accused of murder when Tony kills Garner, but is released when Tony later confesses. The senior Crawford commits suicide. Marie and her lover are reunited.
  
  ## Cast
  
  * Clara Bow as Marie Anthony
  * Donald Keith as Rev. James Crawford
  * Raymond McKee as Tony
  * Hallam Cooley as Jack Garner
  * Winter Hall as Judge Orr
  * Charles Hill Mailes as Kenton Crawford
  * Joan Meredith (undetermined)
  
  ## Preservation
  
  As well as being available on DVD, a copy of Free to Love is held at UCLA Film and Television Archive.
  
  