Capital Punishment (1925)
67 min
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.
- Release date
- January 1, 1925
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- Clara Bow as Delia Tate
- George Hackathorne as Dan OConnor
- Elliott Dexter as Gordon Harrington
- Margaret Livingston as Mona Caldwell
- Mary Carr as Mrs. OConnor
- Robert Ellis as Harry Phillip
- Alec B. Francis as Chaplain
- Eddie Phillips as Condemned Boy
- Edith Yorke as Boys Mother
- Joseph Kilgour as Governor
Crew
- James P. Hogan · Director
- B.P. Schulberg · Writer
- John F. Goodrich · Writer
- Florence L. Gilbert · Writer
- Joseph Goodrich · Cinematographer