# Locked Doors > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Locked_Doors > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Locked_Doors.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locked_Doors > Source revision: 1350245520 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) 1925 film Locked Doors Theatrical release poster Directed by William C. deMille Written by Clara Beranger (story, scenario) Starring Betty Compson Cinematography L. Guy Wilky Edited by Adelaide Cannon Distributed by Paramount Pictures Release date January 5, 1925 (1925-01-05) (U.S.) Running time 70 minutes Country United States Languages Silent (English intertitles) ***Locked Doors*** is a 1925 American silent [romantic drama film](/source/Romantic_drama_film) directed by [William C. deMille](/source/William_C._deMille) and starring [Betty Compson](/source/Betty_Compson). It was produced by [Famous Players–Lasky](/source/Famous_Players%E2%80%93Lasky) and distributed by Paramount Pictures.[1][2] ## Plot As described in a review in a film magazine,[3] Mary (Compson) is married to architect Norman Carter (Edeson) who is many years her senior. Norman also provides a home for her invalid father (Roberts) who spends his time cheating at [solitaire](/source/Solitaire_(card_game)) and trying to get a drink. She respects him but does not love him although he is intensely in love with her. While visiting friends at a lodge in the mountains, she strikes up an acquaintance and then deliberately flirts with John Talbot (von Eltz), and they fall madly in love with another. Norman gives John a job at his office and, after discovering that John is in love with some married woman, invites him to his home to allow him to forget about her. Under the watchful eyes of the husband and his sister Laura (Williams), John and Mary pretend they have never met before and try to hide their love, but it grows more intense. When Norman discovers the truth, he decides to send John to work on a project in Italy. John recklessly goes to see Mary in her room to bid her farewell when a fire breaks out in the house. John cannot get out without now compromising Mary, and she refuses to leave him, so they stay there in her bedroom. Intending to save his wife, Norman breaks into the room and finds them together. The husband rescues Mary and John manages to get back to his own room. The next day, realizing that he will never have the love of his wife, Norman tells them that, while John is in Italy, he will arrange so that Mary can get her divorce so that they will be happy. ## Cast - [Betty Compson](/source/Betty_Compson) as Mary Reid Carter - [Theodore Roberts](/source/Theodore_Roberts) as Mr. Reid - [Kathlyn Williams](/source/Kathlyn_Williams) as Laura Carter - [Theodore von Eltz](/source/Theodore_von_Eltz) as John Talbot - [Robert Edeson](/source/Robert_Edeson) as Norman Carter - Elmo Billings as Mickey - [Harry Stubbs](/source/Harry_Stubbs_(actor)) as undetermined role (uncredited) - [Rosalind Byrne](/source/Rosalind_Byrne) as undetermined role (uncredited) ## Preservation *Locked Doors* is currently [presumed lost](/source/Lost_film).[4][5] In February of 2021, the film was cited by the [National Film Preservation Board](/source/National_Film_Preservation_Board) on their Lost U.S. Silent Feature Films list.[6] ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["Locked Doors"](https://catalog.afi.com/Film/10330-LOCKED-DOORS). *afi.com*. Retrieved March 21, 2024. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** [Progressive Silent Film List: *Locked Doors*](http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/L/LockedDoors1925.html) at silentera.com 1. **[^](#cite_ref-MPBW_3-0)** Sewell, Charles S. (January 24, 1925). ["*Locked Doors*; William DeMille's Newest for Paramount is Dramatic Story of a Wife Who Loves Another Man"](https://archive.org/details/movingpicturewor72janf/page/367/mode/1up). *The Moving Picture World*. **72** (4). New York City: Chalmers Publishing Co.: 367–368. Retrieved July 25, 2021. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** ["The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: *Locked Doors*"](https://web.archive.org/web/20230930014112/http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.6995/default.html). *memory.loc.gov*. Archived from [the original](http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.6995/default.html) on September 30, 2023. Retrieved April 20, 2026. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** ["*Locked Doors* at Lost Film Files: *Paramount Pictures Lost Films - 1925*"](http://www.silentsaregolden.com/arneparamountpictures.html). SilentsAreGolden.com. [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20150822130955/http://www.silentsaregolden.com/arneparamountpictures.html) from the original on August 22, 2015. Retrieved March 21, 2024. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-Lost_U.S._Silent_Feature_Films_6-0)** ["7,200 Lost U.S. Silent Feature Films (1912-29)"](https://www.loc.gov/static/programs/national-film-preservation-board/documents/SFF-LostFilmsList020421.pdf) (PDF). National Film Preservation Board. Retrieved April 20, 2026. ## External links - [*Locked Doors*](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0016036/) at [IMDb](/source/IMDb_(identifier)) v t e Films directed by William C. deMille The Only Son (1914) The Ragamuffin (1916) The Blacklist (1916) The Sowers (1916) The Clown (1916) Common Ground (1916) Anton the Terrible (1916) The Heir to the Hoorah (1916) Hashimura Togo (1917) The Ghost House (1917) The Secret Game (1917) The Widow's Might (1918) One More American (1918) The Honor of His House (1918) Mirandy Smiles (1918) The Mystery Girl (1918) The Tree of Knowledge (1920) Jack Straw (1920) The Prince Chap (1920) Conrad in Quest of His Youth (1920) Midsummer Madness (1921) What Every Woman Knows (1921) The Lost Romance (1921) After the Show (1921) Miss Lulu Bett (1921) Bought and Paid For (1922) Nice People (1922) Clarence (1922) The World's Applause (1923) Grumpy (1923) Only 38 (1923) The Marriage Maker (1923) Don't Call It Love (1923) Icebound (1924) The Bedroom Window (1924) The Fast Set (1924) Locked Doors (1925) Men and Women (1925) Lost: A Wife (1925) New Brooms (1925) The Splendid Crime (1926) The Runaway (1926) For Alimony Only (1926) The Little Adventuress (1927) Craig's Wife (1928) Tenth Avenue (1928) The Doctor's Secret (1929) Midnight Life (1929) The Idle Rich (1929) This Mad World (1930) Passion Flower (1930) Two Kinds of Women (1932) His Double Life (1933) This article about a silent romantic drama film is a stub. 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