Penitentiary (1938)
1h 14m
Running Time
February 5, 1938Release Date
Penitentiary (1938)
1h 14m
Running Time
February 5, 1938Release Date
Network & Production Companies
Plot.
The story of a D.A. who becomes a prison warden and winds up overseeing the sentence of a man he prosecuted.
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Cast & Crew.
Walter Connolly
Dist. Atty. Thomas Mathews
John Howard
William Jordan
Jean Parker
Elizabeth Mathews
Robert Barrat
Prison Yard Capt. Grady
Marc Lawrence
Jack Hawkins
Arthur Hohl
Finch
Charles Halton
Leonard Nettleford
Edward Van Sloan
Dr. Rinewulf
Marjorie Main
Miss Katie Mathews
Stanley Andrews
Prison Captain Dorn (uncredited)
Bess Flowers
Minor Role
Ward Bond
Red Parsons - Prison Barber (uncredited)
Robert North
Producer
Viola Lawrence
Film Processor
Lionel Banks
Art Direction
Stephen Goosson
Art Direction
Robert North
Producer
Arthur S. Black Jr.
Assistant Director
Frank Goodwin
Sound
John P. Livadary
Sound Supervisor
Earle D. Bunn
Stunts
Art Dupuis
Stunts
Bud Geary
Stunts
Chuck Hamilton
Stunts
Media.
Details.
Release DateFebruary 5, 1938
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 14m
Content RatingNR
Genres
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This Movie Is About.
prison
based on novel or book
gangster
prison warden
b movie
district attorney
defense attorney
prison break
Wiki.
Penitentiary is a 1938 American crime film directed by John Brahm starring Walter Connolly, John Howard, Jean Parker and Robert Barrat. It was the second Columbia Pictures film adaptation of the 1929 stage play The Criminal Code by Martin Flavin, after Howard Hawk's The Criminal Code (1931) and followed by Henry Levin's Convicted (1950).