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The Locked Door

The Locked Door

  • Status: Released
  • 16-11-1929
  • Runtime: 74 min
  • Score: 5.9
  • Vote count: 14

On her first anniversary, Ann Reagan finds that her sister-in-law is involved with a shady character that she used to be intimate with, and determines to intervene.

Barbara Stanwyck

Ann Carter

Rod La Rocque

Frank Devereaux

William 'Stage' Boyd

Lawrence Reagan

Betty Bronson

Helen Reagan

Harry Stubbs

The Waiter

Harry Mestayer

District Attorney

Mack Swain

Hotel Proprietor

Zasu Pitts

Telephone Girl

George Bunny

The Valet

Purnell Pratt

Police Officer

Fred Warren

Photographer

Lita Chevret

Girl on Rum Boat (uncredited)

Paulette Goddard

Girl on Rum Boat (uncredited)

Mary Ashcraft

Girl on Rum Boat

Violet Bird

Girl on Rum Boat

Earle Browne

Clarence Burton

Gilbert Clayton

Pauline Curley

Edgar Dearing

Cop

Edward Dillon

Kay English

Girl on Rum Boat

Eleanor Fredericks

Girl on Rum Boat

Dorothy Gowan

Girl on Rum Boat

Leona Leigh

Girl on Rum Boat

Virginia McFadden

Girl on Rum Boat

Fletcher Norton

Robert Schable

Philip Sleeman

Party Guest on Rum Boat

Charles Sullivan

Party Guest on Rum Boat

Greta von Rue

Girl on Rum Boat

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We start off here on a fine liner amidst a raid that sees "Ann" (Barbara Stanwyck) getting caught up with the rake that is "Devereaux" (Rod La Rocque) and photographed by the police. Skip forward a while and now she is married to the loving and respectable "Lawrence" (William Boyd) and living with his younger sister "Helen" (Betty Bronson). It's this latter gal who starts to cause ructions when she meets and falls for the roguish "Devereaux" - a romance her new sister-in-law is determined to thwart. It won't be that simple, though - "Devereaux" is a rogue, but quite a calculating one and he has evidence that could rock the happiness "Ann" has found to it's foundations. Meanwhile. it's also reaching her husband's ears that his sister is fraternising with this wrong 'un, and so an unannounced arrival at his apartment sets up a showdown that will eventually involve the police, the ditzy and entertaining switchboard operator (Zasu Pitts) and just about everyone else. Stanwyck stands out here - not because she's very good, but because she is so much better than everyone else. The script and pace of the thing do just about enough leading to a denouement that isn't quite what was expected. A story of love, lust and loyalty that passes an hour or so easily enough.