Capital Punishment

Synopsis

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.

Main Cast

Clara Bow

Delia Tate

Age : 60 | Popularity : 6%

George Hackathorne

Dan OConnor

Age : 44 | Popularity : 3%

Elliott Dexter

Age : 61 | Popularity : 3%

Margaret Livingston

Age : 89 | Popularity : 4%

Eddie Phillips

Age : 65 | Popularity : 6%

Alec B. Francis

Age : 66 | Popularity : 5%

Edith Yorke

Age : 66 | Popularity : 5%

Joseph Kilgour

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	James P. Hogan
Writing	Writer	John F. Goodrich
	Story	B.P. Schulberg
Camera	Director of Photography	Joseph Goodrich
Department	Role	Name

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