
Capital Punishment
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.
Capital Punishment
January 1, 1925
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Cast (10)

Clara Bow
Delia Tate

George Hackathorne
Dan OConnor

Elliott Dexter
N/A

Eddie Phillips
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Alec B. Francis
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Edith Yorke
N/A

Joseph Kilgour
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George Nichols
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John T. Prince
N/A
Crew (4)
Directing

James P. Hogan
Director
Writing

John F. Goodrich
Writer

B.P. Schulberg
Story
Production
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Joseph Goodrich
Director of Photography