The Deciding Kiss
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The Deciding Kiss is a 1918 American comedy film directed by Tod Browning. The film was considered a lost film for decades.[1] A print was discovered at the French archive Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée in Fort de Bois-d'Arcy.[2]
Plot
As described in a film magazine,[3] Eleanor Hamlin (Roberts), who has been living with an old and impoverished couple, is adopted by two couples, Mr. and Mrs. Sears and Beulah Page (Greenwood) and Peter Bolling (Unterkircher), young people who have read of cooperative parenting and wish to try out the theory. It works very well until Jimmy Sears (Cooley) loses control of himself under the spell of his adopted daughter's kisses. This passes, however, but then Peter falls in love with her. Beulah then tells Eleanor that she is engaged to Peter, and the heart-broken little girl goes back home. After an exhaustive search, Peter fails to find her, and he and Beulah complete their engagement. Eleanor returns, sees the true state of things, and asks God to let her be always their little girl.
Cast
- Edith Roberts as Eleanor Hamlin
- Winifred Greenwood as Beulah Page
- Hallam Cooley as Jimmy Sears (credited as Hal Cooley)
- Hans Unterkircher as Peter Bolling (credited as Thornton Church)
- Lottie Kruse (as Lottie Kruze)
- Edmund Cobb (credited as Edwin Cobb)
- William Courtright (credited as William Cartwright)
Reception
Like many American films of the time, The Deciding Kiss was subject to restrictions and cuts by city and state film censorship boards. For example, the Chicago Board of Censors required, in Reel 4, that the kissing scene at the piano be shortened by eliminating the last half.[4]
References
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- ↑ The Library of Congress/FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: The Deciding Kiss
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External links
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- Kelly, Ethel M. (1917), Turn About Eleanor, Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, on the Internet Archive
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- 1918 films
- 1918 comedy films
- 1910s American films
- 1910s English-language films
- 1910s rediscovered films
- American black-and-white films
- American silent feature films
- Films directed by Tod Browning
- Films with screenplays by Bernard McConville
- Rediscovered American films
- Silent American comedy films
- Surviving American silent films
- Universal Pictures films