| Curlytop | |
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| Directed by | Maurice Elvey |
| Written by | Fanny Hatton Frederic Hatton |
| Based on | "Twelve Golden Curls" 1921 story inMore Limehouse Nights byThomas Burke |
| Produced by | William Fox |
| Starring | Shirley Mason Wallace MacDonald Warner Oland |
| Cinematography | Joseph A. Valentine |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Fox Film Corporation |
Release date |
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Running time | 60 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | Silent (Englishintertitles) |
Curlytop is a lost 1924 Americansilentromantic drama film directed byMaurice Elvey and starringShirley Mason,Wallace MacDonald, andWarner Oland.[1] It is based on one of the short stories collected inLimehouse Nights byThomas Burke.[2]
As described in a review in a film magazine,[3] big Bill Branigan (MacDonald) leaves his sweetheart Bessie (Miller) for Curlytop (Mason), whose unconscious beauty naiveté enthrall him. Shanghai Dan (Oland), who dominates a gang of Chinese crooks in theChinatown centered onLimehouse in theEast End of London, also desires her. Determined to reform, Bill sets out in search of a job, so Bessie revenges herself by getting Curlytop drunk and cutting off her golden curls. Bill returns but cannot find Curlytop, and is persuaded to rekindle his relationship with Bessie. After he finds the golden curls among her belongings, Bill forces Bessie to reveal the whereabouts of Curlytop. Curlytop has been working for Shanghai Dan as a waitress on a floating barge. As Dan is hypnotizing her, another vessel crashes into the barge. Dan is drowned while Curlytop is rescued by Bill.
With no prints ofCurlytop located in any film archives,[4] it is alost film.
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