Synopsis: This silent drama, Walter Lang's feature film debut as a director, tells the tale of Gabrielle Darley (Priscilla Bonner), an attractive young woman who enters into a life of prostitution in order to support herself and her charming but shifty beau, Howard Blaine (Carl Miller). When... This silent drama, Walter Lang's feature film debut as a director, tells the tale of Gabrielle Darley (Priscilla Bonner), an attractive young woman who enters into a life of prostitution in order to support herself and her charming but shifty beau, Howard Blaine (Carl Miller). When Gabrielle discovers that Blaine intends to marry another, she shoots him dead as he attempts to buy the wedding ring. Acquitted of the crime, Gabrielle is adopted by a socialite whose primary motivation is not kindness but publicity. Gabrielle is soon back on the street, prepared for her old profession, when love comes knocking once more. THE RED KIMONA, an engrossing character study that stands among the best U.S. silent films of the mid-1920s, features a plot that clips along at a fine pace and splendid costume and set designs that proffer excellent documentation of a mesmerizing, long-vanished world. [More]