Criminal Code

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Criminal Code ★★½ 1931

Aging melodrama about a young man who's jailed for killing in self-defense. His life worsens at the hands of a prison warden when the head guy's daughter falls for him. Remade as “Penitentiary” and “Convicted.” 98m/B VHS . Walter Huston, Phillips Holmes, Boris Karloff, Constance Cummings, Mary Doran, DeWitt Jennings, John Sheehan; D: Howard Hawks.

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