Capital Punishment

Jan 1, 1925

1h 7m

★ 5.5

Overview

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.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

B.P. Schulberg Productions

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Cast

Delia Tate

Clara Bow

Dan OConnor

George Hackathorne

Elliott Dexter

Margaret Livingston

Eddie Phillips

Alec B. Francis

Edith Yorke

Joseph Kilgour

George Nichols

John T. Prince

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