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The Criminal Code (1931)
Directed by Howard Hawks
“LOVE saved him from worse than THE CHAIR”
Crime, Drama · 1h 37m
After young Robert Graham commits a murder while drunk and defending his girlfriend, he is prosecuted by ambitious Mark Brady and sentenced to 10 years. Six years later, Brady becomes the prison warden and offers the beleaguered Robert a job as his chauffeur. Robert cleans up his act, but, on the eve of his pardon, his cellmate drags him back into the world of violence, and he faces a difficult choice that could return him to prison.
Cast
Walter Huston
Mark Brady
Phillips Holmes
Robert Graham
Constance Cummings
Mary Brady
Boris Karloff
Ned Galloway
DeWitt Jennings
Yard Captain Gleason
Mary Doran
Gertrude Williams
Ethel Wales
Katie Ryan
Clark Marshall
Runch
Arthur Hoyt
Leonard Nettleford
John St. Polis
Dr. Rinewulf
Paul Porcasi
Tony Spelvin
Otto Hoffman
Jim Fales
Crew
- Director
- Howard Hawks
- Director of Photography
- James Wong Howe, Ted Tetzlaff
- Original Music Composer
- Sam Perry
- Editor
- Edward Curtiss
- Producer
- Howard Hawks, Harry Cohn, Frank Fouce
Details
- Release date
- 1931-01-03
- Runtime
- 1h 37m
- Genres
- Crime, Drama
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- German, English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Columbia Pictures