Capital Punishment

Capital Punishment

🎞️ Movie 67 min US
โ˜… 5.5 /10 1925

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.

Cast

Clara Bow
Clara Bow
Delia Tate
George Hackathorne
George Hackathorne
Dan OConnor
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Elliott Dexter
Gordon Harrington
Margaret Livingston
Margaret Livingston
Mona Caldwell
Mary Carr
Mary Carr
Mrs. OConnor
Robert Ellis
Robert Ellis
Harry Phillip
Alec B. Francis
Alec B. Francis
Chaplain
Eddie Phillips
Eddie Phillips
Condemned Boy
Edith Yorke
Edith Yorke
Boys Mother
Joseph Kilgour
Joseph Kilgour
Governor
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Joseph Goodrich
Cinematographer