Film

Capital Punishment

1925 · 1h 7m · Drama

IMDb

6.0

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.

Clara Bow

Delia Tate

George Hackathorne

Dan OConnor

Elliott Dexter

Margaret Livingston

Eddie Phillips

Alec B. Francis

Edith Yorke

Joseph Kilgour

George Nichols

John T. Prince

• James P. HoganDirector
• John F. GoodrichWriter
• B.P. SchulbergStory
• Joseph GoodrichDirector of Photography

Release date

January 1, 1925

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

1h 7m

Genres

Drama

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