The Deep Purple
Cast & Crew
James Young
Clara Kimball Young
E. M. Kimball
Milton Sills
May Hopkins
Mrs. E. M. Kimball
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Technical Specs
Synopsis
A band of crooks led by Harry Leland arrives in a small town with plans to defraud the church deacons. Harry becomes interested in Doris Moore, the minister's daughter, believing that he can use her in his New York operations, and so proposes to her. Doris naïvely consents and goes to New York with Harry, who asks her to speak to William Lake on a small business matter. When Doris and William are together, Harry rushes in, accuses William of seducing his wife (even though they are not yet married), and then threatens to make public his discovery if William does not pay him. The men fight, William is knocked out, and Harry drags away a bewildered Doris. Harry's accomplice, "Fresno" Kate, distressed at his treatment of Doris, turns him in to the authorities, and later, when William visits Doris, a romance develops between them.
Director
James Young
Cast
Clara Kimball Young
E. M. Kimball
Milton Sills
May Hopkins
Mrs. E. M. Kimball
W. J. Ferguson
Grace Aylesworth
Crawford Kent
Fred Truesdale
Dewitt Jennings
Walter Craven
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Notes
W. J. Ferguson, who played "Pop" Clark in the stage version as well as on the screen, acted in the Ford Theater production of Our American Cousin the night that President Abraham Lincoln was shot. The film was re-released by World on December 4, 1916. The story was remade in 1920 with Miriam Cooper, directed by Raoul Walsh (see below). According to modern sources, Ben Carré was the art director on this film.
