Rent Outside the Law (1920)
3.4 of 5 from 55 ratings
1h 16min
- General info
- Available formats
- Synopsis:
While under contract at Universal Studios, Tod Browning crafted a series of melodramas with strong female protagonists, women on the wrong side of the law, who stood defiantly against the men who tried to control them. No actress better personified this tough, glamorous anti-hero than Priscilla Dean. In 'Outside the Law', Dean plays hard-boiled jewel thief Molly Madden. When her father is framed for murder by 'Black Mike' Sylva (Lon Chaney), Molly partners with safecracker 'Dapper Bill' (Wheeler Oakman) to stage a double-cross of their own. 'Outside the Law' was Browning's second film with actor Lon Chaney, whose gifts for elaborate makeup and ruthless villainy would flower under Browning's direction, setting the stage for a series of monstrous characterisations that would revolutionise the melodrama and lay the foundations of the American horror film. - Actors:
- Priscilla Dean, Wheeler Oakman, Lon Chaney, Ralph Lewis, E. Alyn Warren, Stanley Goethals, Melbourne MacDowell, Wilton Taylor, John George, Stanton Heck, Steve Murphy, S.D. Wilcox, Anna May Wong, Bessie Wong, Lulu Wong
- Directors:
- Tod Browning
- Producers:
- Tod Browning
- Writers:
- Gardner Bradford, Tod Browning, Lucien Hubbard
- Genres:
- Classics, Drama, Romance, Thrillers
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 13/06/2022
- Run Time:
- 76 minutes
- Languages:
- English, Silent
- Subtitles:
- None
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Full Screen 1.33:1 / 4:3
- Colour:
- B & W
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- Musical score by Anton Sanko
- Kim Newman on 'Outside the Law' - New video interview with author/critic Kim Newman
- Alternate ending from a 16mm print of the film, created for its 1926 re-release
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