Outside the Law

Year: 1920

Runtime: 76 mins

Director: Tod Browning

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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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