Capital Punishment

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.