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Capital Punishment

Capital Punishment

Drama

1h 7m

January 1, 1925 (100 years ago)

Overview

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.

ActorAge thenAge now
Clara Bow

Clara Bow

Delia Tate

Birthday: July 29, 1905

19 September 27, 1965 (60)
George Hackathorne

George Hackathorne

Dan OConnor

Birthday: February 12, 1896

28 June 25, 1940 (44)
Elliott Dexter

Elliott Dexter

-

Birthday: December 21, 1879

45 June 23, 1941 (61)
Margaret Livingston

Margaret Livingston

-

Birthday: November 24, 1895

29 December 13, 1984 (89)
Eddie Phillips

Eddie Phillips

-

Birthday: August 13, 1899

25 February 22, 1965 (65)
Alec B. Francis

Alec B. Francis

-

Birthday: December 1, 1867

57 July 6, 1934 (66)
Edith Yorke

Edith Yorke

-

Birthday: December 21, 1867

57 July 28, 1934 (66)
Joseph Kilgour

Joseph Kilgour

-

Birthday: November 7, 1863

61 April 21, 1933 (69)
George Nichols

George Nichols

-

Birthday: October 27, 1864

60 September 20, 1927 (62)
John T. Prince

John T. Prince

-

Birthday: September 10, 1871

53 December 23, 1937 (66)