Padlocked


1926

Film Details

Release Date
Jan 1926
Premiere Information
release: 4 Aug or 9 Aug 1926
Production Company
Famous Players--Lasky
Distribution Company
Paramount Pictures
Country
United States
Screenplay Information
Based on the novel Padlocked by Rex Beach (New York, 1926).

Technical Specs

Sound
Silent
Color
Black and White
Film Length
6,700ft (7 reels)

Synopsis

Edith Gilbert, the daughter of Henry Gilbert--a wealthy but bigoted and puritanical reformer--leaves home following her mother's death to seek her fortune on Broadway. Through her boardinghouse roommate, Edith gets work as a cafe dancer. At the cafe, she attracts man-about-town Monte Hermann and also Norman Van Pelt, a youth who falls in love with her. At Hermann's suggestion, Mrs. Alcott, an unsavory society woman, takes Edith under her protective wing; and despite Edith's denials of his base suspicions, Norman leaves for Europe to forget her. Meanwhile, Gilbert, who has married Belle Galloway, a designing spinster, is shocked to learn that Edith is a cabaret dancer and has her committed to a reformatory, where she is crushed mentally and physically. Discovering that Belle is only a scheming hypocrite, however, Gilbert pays her to leave him, and he seeks out Edith to atone for the past. They go abroad, and Edith is happily reunited with Norman.

Film Details

Release Date
Jan 1926
Premiere Information
release: 4 Aug or 9 Aug 1926
Production Company
Famous Players--Lasky
Distribution Company
Paramount Pictures
Country
United States
Screenplay Information
Based on the novel Padlocked by Rex Beach (New York, 1926).

Technical Specs

Sound
Silent
Color
Black and White
Film Length
6,700ft (7 reels)

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