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.
- Data de estreia
- 1 de janeiro de 1925
- País de origem
- Estados Unidos
Elenco
- Clara Bow como Delia Tate
- George Hackathorne como Dan OConnor
- Elliott Dexter como Gordon Harrington
- Margaret Livingston como Mona Caldwell
- Mary Carr como Mrs. OConnor
- Robert Ellis como Harry Phillip
- Alec B. Francis como Chaplain
- Eddie Phillips como Condemned Boy
- Edith Yorke como Boys Mother
- Joseph Kilgour como Governor
Equipe
- James P. Hogan · Diretor(a)
- B.P. Schulberg · Roteirista
- John F. Goodrich · Roteirista
- Florence L. Gilbert · Roteirista
- Joseph Goodrich · Diretor(a) de fotografia