Outside the Law
Outside the Law is a 1920 American pre-Code crime film produced, directed and co-written by Tod Browning and starring Priscilla Dean, Lon Chaney and Wheeler Oakman.
Plot
Silent Madden, a criminal leader in San Francisco, and his gangster daughter Molly (Priscilla Dean) have forsaken a life of crime after receiving counsel from Chang Lo, a Confucianist philosopher living in Chinatown. A despicable gangster named Black Mike Sylva (Lon Chaney) frames Molly's father for murder, causing Molly to lose faith in abiding the law and prompting her return to a life of crime.
More details
| author | Lucien Hubbard Tod Browning |
|---|---|
| director | Tod Browning |
| genre | crime drama |
| keywords | confucianism confucianist edit hide out life of crime |
| producer | Tod Browning |
| publisher | Universal Pictures |
| theme | silent |