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Outside the Law (1920) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1920 · 76 mins
- Directed by
- Tod Browning
- Starring
- Steve Murphy, Anna May Wong, Ralph Lewis, Lon Chaney, Priscilla Dean, John George
The three cleverest crooks—Silent Madden, his daughter Molly, and their third partner—have left San Francisco’s criminal underworld after absorbing the wise teachings of Chang Low, a Confucian master. Now the vengeful Black Mike Sylva is determined to frame Madden as revenge for a past mistake, threatening to drag the reformed thieves back into danger.
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