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The Criminal Code (1931)

19311h 36mdir. Howard HawksUnited Statesdrama filmcrime film

With Walter Huston, Phillips Holmes, Constance Cummings, Boris Karloff, Andy Devine, Arthur Hoyt, DeWitt Clarke Jennings, Ethel Wales

Directed by Howard Hawks

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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. 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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