''Locked Lips'' is a 1920 American drama film directed by

William C. Dowlan William C. Dowlan (September 21, 1882 – November 6, 1947) was an American stage performer and a film actor and director during the silent era. Most of his directorial projects were done in collaboration with his wife, screenwriter Leonora ...

and featuring Tsuru Aoki, Stanhope Wheatcroft, and Magda Lane.

Plot

As described in a film magazine, 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 was a Japanese film director and actor. He went to America along with a younger brother to visit an uncle living in Los Angeles. There he enrolled in an acting school, and upon hearing that Thomas H. Ince was looking for Japanese extras to work i ...

as Komo (as Jack Abbe)

Preservation

With no prints of ''Locked Lips'' located in any film archives, it is considered a

lost film A lost film is a feature or short film that no longer exists in any studio archive, private collection, public archive or the U.S. Library of Congress. Conditions During most of the 20th century, U.S. copyright law required at least one copy o ...

References

External links

* * Universal Pictures films American silent feature films American black-and-white films Silent American drama films 1920 drama films 1920 films 1920 lost films Films directed by William C. Dowlan 1920s American films {{1920s-US-film-stub