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Capital Punishment (1925) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1925 · 67 mins · English
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- Directed by
- James P. Hogan
- Starring
- Alec B. Francis, Clara Bow, Margaret Livingston, George Nichols, George Hackathorne, Elliott Dexter
Although not built as a Clara Bow star vehicle, her presence lifts the film into a social critique. It opens on death row with a young man awaiting execution. Society lawyer Gordon Harrington stages a fake murder, framing Dan O’Connor as a scapegoat, while a playboy hides on a yacht. When the playboy is killed, O’Connor becomes the condemned murderer, exposing the legal system’s flaws.
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