The Red Kimona

The Red Kimona (1925)

You will get a thrill from Mrs. Wallace Reid's amazing story of the traffic in girls!

A woman is abandoned by her lover and prostitution is the only way she has to survive.

Date of release
1925-11-16
TMDB
5.8 / 10 (16)
Runtime
1h 17m
Genres
Drama
Director
Walter Lang, Dorothy Davenport

Casting

Interesting facts

The Red Kimono is a 1925 American silent drama film about prostitution produced by Dorothy Davenport and starring Priscilla Bonner. It is the debut film of director Walter Lang.

Production

The film is notable today for being one of the few independent productions produced and written by women. This is the third of Davenport's "social conscience" releases, preceded by Human Wreckage (1923) on the topic of drug addiction (released five months after Wallace Reid's death from morphine), and Broken Laws (1924) about excessive mother-love.

The film is based on a real case of prostitution that took place in New Orleans in 1917. This film, billing itself as a true story, used the real name of the woman played by Priscilla Bonner, and as a consequence, the woman sued producer Dorothy Davenport and won. The case, Melvin v Reid, has been cited recently in the emerging "right to be forgotten" cases around the world as an early example of one's right to leave a past one wishes to forget.

As with Davenport's earlier Human Wreckage in 1924, the film was banned in the United Kingdom by the British Board of Film Censors in 1926. In the 1920s, the film was banned in Chicago.

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