Molly Madden (Silky Moll)
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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.
In this early collaboration with director Tod Browning (Dracula, Freaks), Chaney delivers a dual performance of dramatic intensity, starring as Ah Wing, a kind-hearted student of Confucian philosophy, and Black Mike Sylva, a murderous rake of the San Francisco underworld.
Jul 20, 2009 · Outside the Law is a 1920 crime film directed by Tod Browning. Browning remade the film in 1930. Black Mike (Lon Chaney) is a despicable gangster who lures Molly (Priscilla Dean), the daughter of a San Francisco underworld leader, back to a life of crime.
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.
The film opened in Los Angeles on December 26, 1920, but its general release was in January 1921. It was re-cut and re-released in mid-1926, and Universal and Tod Browning remade the story in 1930. (See AFI Catalog of Feature Films, 1921-30 ; F2.4085.)
Silent Madden and his daughter Molly have left the criminal underworld of San Francisco thanks to the wise teachings of Chang Low, a Confucian master. But the evil Black Mike Sylva is determined to frame Madden to avenge a mistake from the past…. Cast. Crew.
Outside the Law is a 1920 American crime film directed by Tod Browning and starring Lon Chaney. Browning would remake the film in 1930. Outside the Law is considered to be one of the first psychologically driven films in the gangster genre.
