Reported Missing (1922 film)

{{Infobox film

| name = Reported Missing

| image = Reported Missing (1922) - 8.jpg

| caption =

| producer = Lewis J. Selznick
Myron Selznick

| writer = Lewis Allen Browne
Henry Lehrman
Owen Moore
Tom Bret
E.V. Durling
H.I. Phillips
Will B. Johnstone
John P. Medbury

| narrator =

| starring =Owen Moore
Pauline Garon
Tom Wilson

| music =

| cinematography = Jules Cronjager

| editing = George M. Arthur

| studio = Selznick Pictures

| distributor = Select Pictures

| released = {{Film date|1922|4|5|USA}}

| runtime = 70 minutes

| country = United States

| language = Silent (English intertitles)

| budget =

| gross =

}}

Reported Missing is a 1922 American silent comedy film directed by Henry Lehrman and starring Owen Moore, Pauline Garon, and Tom Wilson.Langman [https://books.google.com/books?id=fAXRKZOA8CUC&q=lehrman p. 10][https://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/R/ReportedMissing1922.html Progressive Silent Film List: Reported Missing] at silentera.com

Plot

As described in a film magazine review,{{cite journal |title=Tried and Proved Pictures: Reported Missing |journal=Exhibitors Trade Review |volume=15 |issue=7 |page=38 |publisher=Exhibitors Review Publishing Corporation |date=12 January 1924 |location=New York |url=https://archive.org/details/exhibit00newy/page/n509/mode/1up |accessdate=16 June 2022}} {{Source-attribution}} Richard Boyd comes into possession of the Boyd Shipping Company through inheritance. The company has an option to obtain a huge fleet of ships much sought after by Young, a scheming Asian shipping magnate. Boyd, a habitual idler, is disinterested in the matter until Pauline makes him get down to business and save these ships for America. Young kidnaps Richard and Pauline on a ship and puts out to sea. The ship becomes stranded. Richard's uncle demands that Young return them. Young takes Pauline captive on his ship while Richard is rescued by a battleship and pursues them in a Navy hydroplane. Young wins this race, but Richard goes to his house and rescues the young woman, Young being killed in the fight.

Cast

{{Cast listing|

Owen Moore as Richard Boyd
Pauline Garon as Pauline Blake
Tom Wilson as Sam
Tôgô Yamamoto as J. Young
Frank Wunderlee as Captain Ferguson
Robert Cain as Andrew Dunn
Nita Naldi as Nita
Mickey Bennett as Boy

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Production

Consistent with the practice at that time, the comic role of the valet Sam was played by Wilson in blackface. The use of white actors in blackface for black character roles in Hollywood films did not begin to decline until the late 1930s, although it is now considered highly offensive.Clark, Alexis. "[https://www.history.com/news/blackface-history-racism-origins How the History of Blackface Is Rooted in Racism]". History. A&E Television Networks, LLC. 2019.