Ladies of the Mob


1928

Film Details

Release Date
Jun 30, 1928
Premiere Information
not available
Production Company
Paramount Famous Lasky Corp.
Country
United States
Screenplay Information
Based on the short story "Ladies of the Mob" by Ernest Booth in American Mercury (Dec 1927).

Technical Specs

Sound
Silent
Color
Black and White
Film Length
6,792ft (7 reels)

Synopsis

Yvonne, a girl whose father was electrocuted when she was a child, is brought up by her mother to be a crook and to avenge her father's death by living outside the law. She falls in love with "Red," her partner in crime. Fearing that the electric chair will separate them, she tries to make him reform. Failing this, she shoots him in the shoulder when he tries to be included in a bank robbery. They give themselves up to pay the penalty and to start life anew without the constant fear of apprehension by the law.

Film Details

Release Date
Jun 30, 1928
Premiere Information
not available
Production Company
Paramount Famous Lasky Corp.
Country
United States
Screenplay Information
Based on the short story "Ladies of the Mob" by Ernest Booth in American Mercury (Dec 1927).

Technical Specs

Sound
Silent
Color
Black and White
Film Length
6,792ft (7 reels)

Quotes

Trivia

A surviving script of the film has some scenes of an electric chair, but all are X'd out, suggesting that they were not used.

Clara Bow and Richard Arlen both suffered minor injuries from richocheting bullets. (Special effects "squibs" had not yet been invented, so marksmen would really shoot near the actors.)

This film is presumed lost. Please check your attic.