Under the Rouge (1925)
War buddies Whitey and Skeeter have become safecrackers. On a job, Skeeter is surprised by the police and killed. Later Whitey discovers that the lowlife Mal is the police informer responsible for Skeeter's death. Whitey sets out to find his moll Kitty, hearing she has gone to the country to find peace and quiet he finds her in a small town. She is involved with bank clerk Fred Morton, so Whitey pretends he has found someone else too. When Mal arrives in town as the advance man for a con and he pursues Skeeter’s sister Evelyn, Kitty tells the story of her own criminal past to save her. Fred drops her, and Kitty tries to drown herself in the river. Whitey saves her life and exposes Fred as an embezzler.
- Date of release
- 1925-10-18
- TMDB
- 7.0 / 10 (1)
- Runtime
- 1h 0m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Lewis H. Moomaw
Casting
- Eileen Percy — Kitty
- Tom Moore — Whitey
- Eddie Phillips — Skeeter
- James Pier Mason — Mal
- Claire de Lorez — Daisy
- William V. Mong — Doc Haskell
- Chester Conklin — Mr. Fleck
- Aileen Manning — Mrs. Fleck
- Stanley Blystone — Jim Condon
- Mary Alden — Martha Maynard
- Bruce Guerin — Little Tommy
- Carmelita Geraghty — Evelyn
Interesting facts
Under the Rouge is a 1925 American silent drama film directed by Lewis H. Moomaw and starring Eileen Percy, Tom Moore and Eddie Phillips. After being arrested for safe-breaking, a man goes home to try and patch things up with his former girlfriend.
Production
Under the Rouge was filmed on location in Portland, Oregon.
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