Padlocked is a 1926 American silent drama film directed by Allan Dwan and written by Rex Beach, Becky Gardiner, and James Shelley Hamilton.
The film stars Lois Moran, Noah Beery Sr., Louise Dresser, Helen Jerome Eddy, Allan Simpson, Florence Turner, and Richard Arlen.
[1][2] Edith is the daughter of Henry Gilbert, a Christian devoted to moral reform but hypocritically infatuated with his assistant, Belle Galloway.
During a fight, Henry knocks his wife unconscious and accidentally turns on a gas fireplace before locking her in her room, suffocating her to death.
She also invites her entire family to live with her, including her alcoholic mother and lothario brother (played by a 17-year-old Douglas Fairbanks Jr.).
[3] In 2023, this sole extant print was restored by the San Francisco Silent Film Festival and screened for the first time since 1926.