The Social Code

Oct 1, 1923

0h 50m

★ 0.0

Overview

Babs Van Buren saves her lover from the electric chair and at the same time extricates her older sister, Connie from a trying situation.

Genres

Drama

Mystery

Crime

Production Companies

Metro Pictures Corporation

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Cast

Babs Van Buren

Viola Dana

Dean Cardigan

Malcolm McGregor

Judge Evans Grant

Huntley Gordon

Colby Dickinson

Cyril Chadwick

District Attorney

William Humphrey

Defense Attorney

John St. Polis

Connie Grant

Edna Flugrath

On account of an urgent business call, Mr. and Mrs. Leslie hurriedly close their summer home at Hudsoncliff and leave with their daughter, Jane, for the city. Bob, their son, decides to visit his parents at Hudsoncliff with his friend, Ralph Lyons. Bob and Ralph find the house locked up and, after some reconnoitering, enter through a window. Ralph hurts his ankle and is unable to attend a dance that evening, so Bob goes instead. Jane, on her arrival in the city, finds she has left her necklace in the safe at their summer home, and leaves a note for her mother, saying she is going back for it.

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