OUTSIDE THE LAW

with musical accompaniment by Stephen Horne and Frank Bockius

Showings

Castro Theatre Sat, Jun 3, 2017 5:00 PM
$16 general / $14 member - no service charge!
Film Info
Director:Tod Browning
Cast:Priscilla Dean
Wheeler Oakman
Lon Chaney
Ralph Lewis
Year:1920
Country:USA
Total Run Time:76 min.

Description

San Francisco crime boss Silent Madden and his daughter, Molly ‘Silky Moll’ Madden are friends with respected Confucian master Chang Lo, whose influence is shifting the Maddens’ thinking toward the straight-and-narrow. But nefarious bad guy Black Mike Sylva has other ideas! Sylva frames Silent for murder and manipulates Molly into a return to crime. Lon Chaney has dual roles in the story—as the evil Sylva and as Ah Wing, Chang Lo’s dedicated servant—but the real star is the tough-as-nails Priscilla Dean as Molly. Look for Anna May Wong in one of her earliest roles!

Underwritten by Universal Studios

Musical accompaniment by Stephen Horne and Frank Bockius

Copresented by the Film Noir Foundation and the California Historical Society 

 

Restoration by Universal Pictures


Children under the age of 10 are admitted free.