Twinkletoes

Twinkletoes is a 1926 silent film romantic drama directed by Charles Brabin and starring Colleen Moore. The film, as with most of Moores vehicles at this time, was produced by her husband John McCormick with the couple distributing through Moores resident studio First National. This film is one of Moores surviving films from the late silent era and is available on DVD.

Monica Twinkletoes Minasi, a motherless child of the London Limehouse district, is a brilliant young dancer who lives in poverty. She saves a crowd from abuse by the police through an impromptu performance, during which she meets Chuck Lightfoot, a champion fighter and older married man whose wife, Cissie, was the cause of the ruckus. Twinks finds herself slowly falling in love with Chuck but resists, because he is married and much older he is in his late twenties, she might be as young as 15, but when he saves her from an attack one night she realizes that it is useless to fight her feelings.She dances at the head of the Quayside Kids, a local dance group in a music hall run by Roseleaf, who has designs on the young girls that dance for him. Chucks wife Cissie realizes that her husband had feelings for Twinks and, learning that Twinks dad is a burglar, exposes him to the police. Twinks is distraught when she learns the news that her fatherwhom she admired above all other peopleis a criminal. Roseleaf takes her to his apartment and attempts to have his way with her, but she manages to escape. Cissie is killed in an accident, and, in despair, Twink throws herself into the river. She is rescued by Chuck and in his arms finds something to live for. ........

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