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24 September 1922 (USA) moreTagline:
For the rich and poor, the beautiful and plain-there's only one law! She has broken it and must pay! morePlot:
Society-girl thrillseeker Lydia causes the death of motorcylce policeman and is prosecuted by her fiance... more | add synopsisUser Comments:
Your basic programmer magazine story film moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Leatrice Joy | ... | Lydia Thorne | |
| Thomas Meighan | ... | Daniel J. O'Bannon | |
| Lois Wilson | ... | Evans (Lydia's maid) | |
| John Miltern | ... | Gov. Stephan Albee | |
| George Fawcett | ... | Judge Homans | |
| Julia Faye | ... | Mrs. Drummond | |
| Edythe Chapman | ... | Adeline Bennett | |
| Jack Mower | ... | Drummond (policeman) | |
| Dorothy Cumming | ... | Eleanor Bellington | |
| Casson Ferguson | ... | Bobby Dorest | |
| Michael D. Moore | ... | Dicky Evans (as Mickey Moore) | |
| James Neill | ... | Butler | |
| Sylvia Ashton | ... | Prison matron | |
| Raymond Hatton | ... | Brown | |
| Mabel Van Buren | ... | Prisoner |
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Leatrice Joy claimed to have based her performance on Madelynne Obenchain, whose trial she attended in Los Angeles. Obenchain, who murdered her (unreceptive) paramour J. Belton Kennedy in Los Angeles, later had her story incorporated into a film, "A Man and a Million", produced by Charles R. Seeling and starring her husband, Ralph Obenchain. moreQuotes:
Mrs. Drummond: It's fine, isn't it, for you to hide yourself from justice behind that veil - but what about this veil that you've made me wear? Your money can't give back my boy! moreFAQ
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Pretentious, preachy, magazine-style "sob story" film delivers on all its basic promises, which are few. There's the obligatory "Roman Orgy" scene, of course. Well, the "hero" is, although he's the D.A., inexplicably hanging out at a "bootlegger" party, and he starts spouting off about how awful it all is -- girls racing on pogo sticks!!! -- just like ancient Rome. He comes off as self-righteous and boring. Later on in the film, he becomes a self-righteous, boring drunk, and the girl he sent to prison for manslaughter "saves" him (!). Best scene: the cop on the bike flipping over a car.