The Deep Purple


1920

Film Details

Genre
Adaptation
Release Date
May 2, 1920
Premiere Information
not available
Production Company
Mayflower Photoplay Corp.
Distribution Company
Realart Pictures Corp.
Country
United States
Screenplay Information
Based on the play The Deep Purple by Paul Armstrong, Wilson Mizner (Chicago, 3 Oct 1910).

Technical Specs

Sound
Silent
Color
Black and White
Theatrical Aspect Ratio
1.33 : 1
Film Length
6,661ft (6-7 reels)

Synopsis

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.

Film Details

Genre
Adaptation
Release Date
May 2, 1920
Premiere Information
not available
Production Company
Mayflower Photoplay Corp.
Distribution Company
Realart Pictures Corp.
Country
United States
Screenplay Information
Based on the play The Deep Purple by Paul Armstrong, Wilson Mizner (Chicago, 3 Oct 1910).

Technical Specs

Sound
Silent
Color
Black and White
Theatrical Aspect Ratio
1.33 : 1
Film Length
6,661ft (6-7 reels)

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