Locked Lips

Locked Lips is a 1920 American drama film directed by William C. Dowlan and featuring Tsuru Aoki, Stanhope Wheatcroft, and Magda Lane.^[1][2][3]

Locked Lips
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Directed by	William C. Dowlan
Written by	Violet Clark (scenario)
Based on	"Blossom" by Clifford Howard
Starring	Tsuru Aoki Stanhope Wheatcroft
Production company	Universal Film Manufacturing Company
Release date	April 28, 1920 (1920-04-28) (USA)
Running time	5 reels
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

Plot

As described in a film magazine,^[4] 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 as Komo (as Jack Abbe)^[5]

Preservation

With no prints of Locked Lips located in any film archives, it is considered a lost film.^[6][5]