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Capital Punishment
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Capital Punishment

1925-01-01 · 67 min · ★ 7.0

Drama

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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Directors
James P. Hogan
Production companies
B.P. Schulberg Productions
Countries
United States of America
Status
Released

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Clara BowClara BowDelia Tate
George HackathorneGeorge HackathorneDan OConnor
Elliott DexterElliott Dexter
Margaret LivingstonMargaret Livingston
Eddie PhillipsEddie Phillips
Alec B. FrancisAlec B. Francis
Edith YorkeEdith Yorke
Joseph KilgourJoseph Kilgour
George NicholsGeorge Nichols
John T. PrinceJohn T. Prince

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