Padlocked
About Padlocked
Edith Gilbert keeps a padlocked diary under her father Henry's rules. On her seventeenth birthday he comes home early, breaks up the party, and her mother dies in the locked room after the fight. Edith runs to New York and dances in burlesque. Henry has her arrested. A judge gives her the reformatory or a return to Henry and his new wife, Belle. She takes the reformatory. Monte Hermann bails her out. Henry then lets her go, and she agrees to marry Norman Van Pelt.
Cast & crew
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Allan Dwan directed. Rex Beach, Becky Gardiner, and James Shelley Hamilton wrote it. Jesse L. Lasky produced. Paramount released the film on 2 August 1926. Lois Moran plays Edith. Noah Beery plays Henry.
Themes
Music
Silent.
Preservation
Extant. The surviving print is in the Národní filmový archiv. The San Francisco Silent Film Festival restored it in 2023.
Notes
- Louise Dresser plays Mrs. Alcott. Helen Jerome Eddy plays Belle Galloway. Allan Simpson plays Norman Van Pelt. Florence Turner plays Mrs. Gilbert.
- Richard Arlen plays 'Tubby' Clark. Charles Lane plays Monte Hermann. Douglas Fairbanks Jr. plays Belle's brother Sonny Galloway.
- Belle drops the moral pose, cuts her hair, and spends. Henry pays to get her mother and brother out of the house.
- A print survives at the Národní filmový archiv in Prague. The San Francisco Silent Film Festival restored it in 2023 and showed it, the first public screening since 1926.
Scenes
- Henry breaks up the birthday party and Mrs. Gilbert dies in the locked room.
- Edith tells the judge her parents are dead to her and is sent to the reformatory.
- Norman comes back, Henry releases her, and she accepts the marriage.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (Padlocked (1926).webm)
