The Deciding Kiss
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Genre Drama Duration | Director Tod Browning Distributor Universal Studios Country United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Language Silent
English intertitles Release date July 22, 1918 (1918-07-22) Writer Ethel M. Kelly (novel), Bernard McConville Cast Edith Roberts (Eleanor Hamlin), Winifred Greenwood (Beulah Page), Hallam Cooley (Jimmy Sears), Hans Unterkircher (Peter Bolling), Lottie Kruse (Edmund Cobb), William Courtright Genres Comedy, Melodrama, Silent film, Black-and-white Similar movies Related Tod Browning movies | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Deciding Kiss is a 1918 American comedy film directed by Tod Browning. It is not known whether the film currently survives, which suggests that it may be a lost film.
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Plot
As described in a film magazine, 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.
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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.
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