The Criminal Code (1931)
1h 37m
Running Time
January 3, 1931Release Date
The Criminal Code (1931)
1h 37m
Running Time
January 3, 1931Release Date
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Plot.
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.
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Cast & Crew.

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

John Sheehan
'Mac' McManus

Andy Devine
Cluck (uncredited)

Bob Kortman
Red, the Convict Barber (uncredited)

James Guilfoyle
Detective Doran

Frank Hagney
Prison Guard in Yard

Al Hill
Jerry

Russell Hopton
State's Attorney

Harold Huber
Convict in Yard

Tetsu Komai
Convict

Harry Lamont
Convict

Lee Phelps
Detective Doherty

Nicholas Soussanin
Convict
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Details.
This Movie Is About.
warden
pre-code
Wiki.
The Criminal Code is a 1931 American pre-Code romantic crime drama film directed by Howard Hawks and starring Walter Huston and Phillips Holmes. The screenplay, based on a 1929 play of the same name by Martin Flavin, was written by Fred Niblo Jr. and Seton I. Miller, who were nominated for Best Adaptation at the 4th Academy Awards but the award went to Howard Estabrook for Cimarron.
The film is the first of three film adaptations of the play released by Columbia Pictures. It was followed by Penitentiary (1938) and Convicted (1950).
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