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Capital Punishment

Jan 1, 1925 · 1h 7m
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Drama

PLOT

This is not a Clara Bow vehicle, and yet it is clearly the aspect/asset of Clara Bow which elevates a fairly serious melodrama to a timeless and profound social statement. Opening the film on death row where the handsome youth awaits the chair, a stirring test of the legal system evolves after two elite types conspire to expose its inadequacies. Elite, jaded society lawyer Gordon Harrington fabricates a murder, implicating an entirely "hired" fall-guy, one Dan O'Connor, while the bored playboy-type hides away on a yacht until the points are proven and the legal system has been disgraced. Naturally, something goes wrong, the playboy really turns up murdered, and O'Connor is now the accused, imprisoned murderer scheduled to be hanged.

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CAST

Clara Bow
Delia Tate
George Hackathorne
Dan OConnor
Elliott Dexter
Margaret Livingston
Eddie Phillips
Alec B. Francis
Edith Yorke
Joseph Kilgour
Directed by James P. Hogan

DETAILS

Status
Released
Original language
EN
Budget
—
Revenue
—
Production
B.P. Schulberg Productions
Country
US

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