| The Deep Purple | |
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| Directed by | Raoul Walsh |
| Written by | Earle Browne (adaptation, scenario) |
| Based on | The Deep Purple byPaul Armstrong andWilson Mizner |
| Produced by | Raoul Walsh |
| Starring | Miriam Cooper Helen Ware |
| Cinematography | Jacques Bizeul (fr) |
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| Distributed by | Realart Pictures Corporation |
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Running time | 6reels |
| Country | United States |
| Language | Silent (Englishintertitles) |
The Deep Purple is a 1920 Americansilentcrime drama film directed byRaoul Walsh from a 1910 play,The Deep Purple, co-written byPaul Armstrong andWilson Mizner. The picture starsMiriam Cooper andHelen Ware and is aremake of the 1915 lost filmThe Deep Purple. It is not known whether the 1920 film currentlysurvives.[1]
As described in afilm 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.
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