The Red Lily is a 1924 American silent drama film directed by Fred Niblo and starring Ramon Novarro, Enid Bennett, and Wallace Beery.
A man arrives at the City Hall to inform the Mayor that Marise's father has died.
While traveling on the road, Marise arrives at a cottage where she meets a family having dinner.
Back at the City Hall, Jean tells his father he will marry Marise when he is of age.
Back in Vivonne, Mayor Leonnec discovers that money has been stolen from his treasury safe, and accuses his son of being a thief.
Hours later, Jean escape the detectives and races back to Paris, but he finds Marise is no longer there.
Thinking he is a wanted fugitive, Jean meets Bo-Bo, a clever pickpocket, along the Seine.
Months pass, and Jean is a wanted fugitive while Marise finds employment at a factory.
Afraid of being arrested again, Jean stays with Marise, though he remains in love with her younger state.
The film industry created the National Association of the Motion Picture Industry in 1916 in an effort to preempt censorship by states and municipalities, and it used a list of subjects called the "Thirteen Points" which film plots were to avoid.