Stolen Love (1928 film)
{{short description|1928 film}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=October 2020}}
{{Infobox film
| name = Stolen Love
| image = Stolen Love lobby card.jpg
| caption = Lobby card
| director = Lynn Shores
Walter Daniels (asst.)
| producer = FBO
| writer = Winifred Day
Helen Gregg
| based_on = {{basedon|Stolen Love|Hazel Livingston}}
| starring = Marceline Day
Rex Lease
| music =
| cinematography = Ted Pahle
| editing = Ann McKnight
| distributor = Film Booking Offices of America
| released = {{Film date|1928|12|02}}
| runtime = 7 reels
| country = United States
| language = Silent (English intertitles)
}}
Stolen Love is a 1928 American silent drama film directed by Lynn Shores and starring Marceline Day and Rex Lease.{{Cite web|url=https://aficatalog.afi.com/|title=Home|website=Aficatalog.afi.com|access-date=April 30, 2023}}[http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/S/StolenLove1928.html Progressive Silent Film List: Stolen Love], Silentera.com The plot was adapted from a serial story by Hazel Livingston published in Hearst Corporation newspapers.
Plot
As noted in a film review,{{cite journal |last=Mori |first= |author-link= |title=Film Reviews: Stolen Love |journal=Variety |volume=94 |issue=1 |pages=25, 44 |publisher=Variety, Inc. |location=New York City |date=1929-01-16 |url=https://archive.org/details/variety93-1929-01/page/n311/mode/1up |access-date=25 April 2025}} Joan Hastings, a 17-year old young woman, has never had a boy friend owing to the strict supervision by a pair of spinster aunts. She falls for Bill, a young garage mechanic with the invention bug. After her aunts quash the romance, she runs off to San Francisco to become a model under the sponsorship of the menacing Curtis Barlow. Barlow plays the game carefully, waiting until he has Joan alone with him at his mountain cabin to make his move to take her. Bill rushes in at the last moment and engages in a fist fight.
Cast
- Marceline Day as Joan Hastings
- Rex Lease as Bill
- Owen Moore as Curtis Barlow
- Helen Lynch as Ruth
- Blanche Frederici as Aunt Evvie
- Joy Winthrop as Aunt Babe
- Betty Blythe as Modiste
Critical reception
A review in Harrison's Reports summarized the film as "Only fair . . . an old story, told in a conventional way".{{cite news |title='Stolen Love' -- Marceline Day and Owen Moore |url=https://archive.org/details/harrisonsreports00harr_5/page/n10/mode/1up?view=theater |access-date=May 22, 2022 |work=Harrison's Reports |date=January 12, 1929 |page=7}} It complimented Day's "very good performance" and described Lease as "likeable as the hero", but it described Moore's acting as "in colorless manner".
Preservation
With no prints of Stolen Love located in any film archives,{{Cite web|url=http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.9543/default.html|title=Library of Congress / FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: Stolen Love|date=April 30, 1928|access-date=April 30, 2023|website=Memory.loc.gov}} it is a lost film.
References
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External links
{{commons category|Stolen Love (film)}}
- {{IMDb title|id=0019424|title=Stolen Love}}
Category:American silent feature films
Category:Film Booking Offices of America films
Category:American black-and-white films
Category:Silent American drama films
Category:Films directed by Lynn Shores
Category:1920s English-language films
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