Under the Rouge

Overview

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.

Cast

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