It Is the Law is a 1924 American silent mystery film directed by J. Gordon Edwards and starring Arthur Hohl, Herbert Heyes, and Mona Palma. It is a film adaptation of the 1922 Broadway play of the same name by Elmer Rice, itself based on a novel by Hayden Talbot.
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It Is the Law is a 1924 American silent mystery film directed by J. Gordon Edwards and starring Arthur Hohl, Herbert Heyes, and Mona Palma. It is a film adaptation of the 1922 Broadway play of the same name by Elmer Rice, itself based on a novel by Hayden Talbot. The film depicts the story of Ruth Allen, who marries Justin Victor over competing suitor Albert Woodruff. Woodruff fakes his own death by killing a drifter who resembles him, and frames Victor for the murder. Once Victor is freed from prison, he kills Woodruff and goes free because a conviction would constitute double jeopardy. This was the final film for director Edwards, who died the following year, and was one of the last produced at Fox Film’s New York studio.
Like many of Fox’s early works, it was likely lost in the 1937 Fox vault fire. The set constructed for the courtroom climax was a duplicate of a room in The Tombs in New York. When Twentieth Century-Fox renewed the copyright in 1951, they again referred to the film as It Is The Law! The film was also restyled with an exclamation point, as It is the Law! Fox’s advertising for the film included a trailer, as well as novelty items to be given away by exhibitors.
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