The Deep Purple (1920)

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(15)

Country: USA
Genres: Crime, Drama
Release: 1920-05-02
Director: Raoul Walsh
Writers: Paul Armstrong , Earle Browne , Wilson Mizner
Language: None | English
Stars: Miriam Cooper , Helen Ware , Vincent Serrano , William J. Ferguson , Stuart Sage , William B. Mack , Lincoln Plumer , Ethel Hallor , Lorraine Frost , Louis Mackintosh
Runtime: 60 min
Awards: N/A
AKA: The Deep Purple (United States of America) , Profondo rosso (Italy) , De mærkede (Denmark) , The Deep Purple , The Deep Purple (United Kingdom)
Plot: Two con men, Pop Clark and Harry Leland, take rooms in a small town boardinghouse, where Leland makes love to Doris Moore, a young woman restless to leave her village. Leland convinces Doris to follow the con men to New York City, where she stays in a boardinghouse run by Kate Fallon, a woman with a disreputable past who poses as Leland's aunt. Clark and Leland plan to use Doris to lure young engineer William Lake into a compromising situation, but Kate, who has befriended Doris, tells Lake of the con men's plan, and Lake removes Doris from the clutches of Clark and Leland. Meanwhile, Laylock, a reformed crook and a friend of Kate's, is freed from jail, where he was placed through the contrivance of Clark and Leland, and kills Leland in a pistol duel. Lake persuades his friend, Inspector Bruce, that Leland has committed suicide, and Laylock goes free. Finally, Doris and Lake become engaged.
IMDB:tt0011102