The Deep Purple (1920 film)

The Deep Purple
The Deep Purple
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Directed by	Raoul Walsh
Written by	Earle Browne (adaptation, scenario)
Based on	The Deep Purple; by Paul Armstrong and Wilson Mizner
Produced by	Raoul Walsh
Starring	Miriam Cooper; Helen Ware
Cinematography	Jacques Bizeul (fr)
Production; company	Mayflower Photoplay Company
Distributed by	Realart Pictures Corporation
Release date	May 2, 1920;
Running time	6 reels
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

The Deep Purple is a 1920 American silent crime drama film directed by Raoul Walsh from a 1910 play, The Deep Purple, co-written by Paul Armstrong and Wilson Mizner. The picture stars Miriam Cooper and Helen Ware and is a remake of the 1915 lost film The Deep Purple. It is not known whether the 1920 film currently survives.^[1]

Plot

As described in a film magazine,^[2] country village maiden Doris Moore (Cooper) listens intently to the wooing of Harry Leland (Serrano), a crook who is in the neighborhood with Pop Clark (Ferguson), another professional crook. Believing in his promise of marriage, Doris goes with Harry and Pop when they return to the city. Kate Fallon (Ware), a boarding house keeper, protects Doris from Harry, but she becomes involved in a plot to rob William Lake (Sage), a wealthy westerner. Doris swings around to the right side when she meets William and love springs into being. The crooks are defeated in their designs and William and Doris are then brought into happiness.