Locked Lips
{{short description|1920 film by William C. Dowlan}}
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{{Infobox film
| name = Locked Lips
| image = File:Locked Lips (1920) - Ad 1.jpg
| alt = Advertisement for the film
| caption = Advertisement for the film
| director = William C. Dowlan
| producer =
| writer = Violet Clark (scenario)
| screenplay =
| story =
| starring = {{Plainlist|
- Tsuru Aoki
- Stanhope Wheatcroft
}}
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| studio = Universal Film Manufacturing Company
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| released = {{Film date|1920|4|28|USA}}
| runtime = 5 reels
| country = United States
| language = Silent (English intertitles)
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| based_on = {{based on|"Blossom"|Clifford Howard}}
}}
Locked Lips is a 1920 American drama film directed by William C. Dowlan and featuring Tsuru Aoki, Stanhope Wheatcroft, and Magda Lane.{{cite book|last=Goble|first=Alan|title=The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Yyqc0Qa6b60C&pg=PA230|date=January 1, 1999|publisher=Walter de Gruyter|isbn=978-3-11-095194-3|page=230}}{{cite book|last=Gevinson|first=Alan|title=Within Our Gates: Ethnicity in American Feature Films, 1911-1960|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bsoUXGZSxZcC&pg=PA605|year=1997|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-20964-0|page=605}}{{cite web|url=https://catalog.afi.com/Film/2075-LOCKED-LIPS |title=Locked Lips |work=afi.com |access-date=March 22, 2024}}
Plot
As described in a film magazine,{{cite journal |title=Reviews: Locked Lips |journal=Exhibitors Herald |volume=10 |issue=20 |page=73 |publisher=Exhibitors Herald Company |location=New York City |date=May 15, 1920 |url=https://archive.org/details/exhibitorsherald10exhi_0}} Blossom (Aoki), a Japanese orphan girl and a teacher at a native school in Hawaii, finds Parker (Wheatcroft), an American and a derelict, attempting to rob her cottage. She sympathizes with him and partially reclaims him, and then they are married. Park fleas to Honolulu and then to the United States, leaving behind indications that he drowned. Blossom comes to the United States and gets a position as a lady's maid to Audry (Lane). On the day that a baby is born to Audry, her husband Harvey Stanwood returns home, and Blossom recognizes in him her former husband Park. He, aware of Blossom's identity and fearing exposure, attempts to kill her with poison incense, but he falls victim to it instead. Blossom returns to her Japanese lover Komo and they find happiness.
Cast
- Tsuru Aoki as Lotus Blossom
- Stanhope Wheatcroft as Park, aka Harvey Stanwood
- Magda Lane as Audrey Stanwood
- Yutaka Abe as Komo (as Jack Abbe)
Preservation
With no prints of Locked Lips located in any film archives, it is considered a lost film.{{cite web |url=https://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.6997/ |title=American Silent Feature Film Database: Locked Lips |access-date=March 22, 2024 |publisher=Library of Congress}}{{cite web |url=http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/L/LockedLips1920.html |title=Progressive Silent Film List: Locked Lips |access-date=March 22, 2024 |publisher=silentera.com}}
References
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External links
{{commons category|Locked Lips}}
- {{IMDb title|0011410}}
Category:1920s English-language films
Category:American black-and-white films
Category:American silent feature films
Category:Films directed by William C. Dowlan
Category:Lost American drama films
Category:Silent American drama films
Category:Universal Pictures films
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