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The Criminal Code is a american film of genre Drama directed by Howard Hawks released in USA on 3 january 1931 with Walter Huston
The Criminal Code (1931)
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Add to a movie listThe Criminal Code (1931) is an American Pre-Code Hollywood crime film, directed by Howard Hawks starring Walter Huston and Phillips Holmes. The film is the first of three Columbia Pictures film adaptations of the stage play of the same name by Martin Flavin.
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Six years of stress and hard labor working in the prison jute mill has taken its toll on young Robert Graham. The penitentiary's resident doctor and psychiatrist recommends that Warden Brady see him and proposes that he offer him a drastic change of environment and duties before his psychological damages become irreversible. When the warden realizes who the inmate is, or rather was, and recalls that it was he that helped put him behind bars (as with many of the prisoners), he agrees to give him a chance and offers him a job as his valet. Graham enjoys his new employment, especially since he is frequently in the company of the warden's pretty young daughter, Mary. He improves in general character and demeanor and regains his morale.Actors
Walter Huston
(Mark Brady)
Phillips Holmes
(Robert Graham)
Constance Cummings
(Mary Brady)
Boris Karloff
(Ned Galloway)
Andy Devine
(Cluck (uncredited))
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