Capital Punishment
Cast & Crew
James P. Hogan
Eddie Phillips
Alec B. Francis
Edith Yorke
Joseph Kilgour
George Nichols
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Synopsis
After a vain attempt to save an innocent man from execution, welfare worker Gordon Harrington arranges with Dan O'Connor for Dan to be framed for a murder that will never occur, telling Dan that, at the appropriate moment, the hoax will be disclosed and capital punishment will thereby be discredited. Harrington arranges for his friend, Harry Phillips, to go on an extended sea voyage on his yacht and then makes it appear that O'Connor has murdered Phillips. O'Connor is convicted and sentenced to death. Phillips returns home unexpectedly from his cruise, and, in an argument, Harrington inadvertently kills him. Mona Caldwell, Harrington's fiancée, persuades him not to report the murder to the police, allowing O'Connor to go to his doom. O'Connor protests his innocence but Harrington disavows all knowledge of a frameup. O'Connor is about to be executed when Mona has a change of heart and tells the police that Harrington is the man who murdered Phillips.
Director
James P. Hogan
Cast
Eddie Phillips
Alec B. Francis
Edith Yorke
Joseph Kilgour
George Nichols
John Prince
Elliott Dexter
George Hackathorne
Clara Bow
Margaret Livingston
Robert Ellis
Mary Carr
Fred Warren
Wade Boteler
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Trivia
Considered lost in the United States, the movie was repatriated from a print in the Netherlands by the National Center for Film and Video Preservation at some point between 1987 and 1993.
