Outside the Law (1921)
January 6, 1921Release Date
Outside the Law (1921)
January 6, 1921Release Date
Plot.
Where to Watch.
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This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Priscilla Dean
Molly Madden (Silky Moll)
Wheeler Oakman
'Dapper Bill' Ballard
Lon Chaney
Ah Wing / 'Black Mike' Sylva
Ralph Lewis
'Silent' Madden
E. Alyn Warren
Chang Lo
Stanley Goethals
The Kid Across the Hall
Melbourne MacDowell
Morgan Spencer
Wilton Taylor
Inspector
John George
Humpy (uncredited)
Stanton Heck
Police Officer (uncredited)
Arthur Millett
Detective at Party (uncredited)
Steve Murphy
Member of Black Mike's Gang (uncredited)
S.D. Wilcox
Policeman Arresting Madden (uncredited)
Anna May Wong
Chinese Girl (uncredited)
Bessie Wong
Chinese Girl at Chang Low's (uncredited)
Lulu Wong
Chinese Girl at Chang Low’s (uncredited)
Tod Browning
Director / Story / Producer
William Fildew
Director of Photography
Gardner Bradford
Screenplay
Elmer Sheeley
Art Direction
Lucien Hubbard
Scenario Writer
Edward Kilenyi
Music
Maximilien Mathevon
Music
Tom Gubbins
Assistant Director
Leo McCarey
Assistant Director
Joe Cooke
Props
Roman Freulich
Still Photographer
Harry Reichenbach
Publicist
Media.
Details.
Wiki.
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.One of a series of Universal Pictures vehicles produced for Priscilla Dean, Outside the Law features Lon Chaney in dual supporting roles and his second pairing with director Tod Browning. This was the first time Chaney played an Asian character. Stills exist showing Chaney in his dual roles.
Browning would remake the film in 1930 with a pre-Little Caesar Edward G. Robinson in Chaney's 1920 role as a gang leader. The film was gently reedited (a few of Chaney's scenes as "Ah Wing" were cut) and reissued theatrically in 1926, and this is the print that is available today on dvd. A musical score was prepared by Dr. Edward Kilenyi for the 1926 reissue, and an "elaborate atmospheric presentation" of the film was arranged by German director Paul Leni. Several posters and lobby cards still exist from the film.