Rent The Criminal Code (1930)
3.5 of 5 from 62 ratings
1h 37min
- General info
- Available formats
- Synopsis:
- After young Robert Graham (Phillips Holmes) commits a murder while drunk and defending his girlfriend, he is prosecuted by ambitious Mark Brady (Walter Huston) 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.
- Actors:
- Walter Huston, Phillips Holmes, Constance Cummings, Boris Karloff, DeWitt Jennings, Mary Doran, Ethel Wales, Clark Marshall, Arthur Hoyt, John St. Polis, Paul Porcasi, Otto Hoffman, John Sheehan, Richard Bishop, Andy Devine, James Guilfoyle, Frank Hagney, Al Hill, Russell Hopton, Harold Huber
- Directors:
- Howard Hawks
- Producers:
- Harry Cohn, Frank Fouce, Howard Hawks
- Writers:
- Martin Flavin, Fred Niblo Jr., Seton I. Miller
- Others:
- Fred Niblo Jr., Seton I. Miller
- Genres:
- Classics, Drama, Romance
- Collections:
- Instant Expert's Guide to John Huston, The Instant Expert's Guide, The Instant Expert's Guide to Howard Hawks
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 22/03/2021
- Run Time:
- 97 minutes
- Languages:
- English LPCM Mono
- Subtitles:
- English Hard of Hearing
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Full Screen 1.37:1
- Colour:
- B & W
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- Audio commentary with film historian Nora Fiore (2021)
- Behind the Mask (2021, 26 mins): author and critic Kim Newman discusses the non-horror career of actor Boris Karloff
- Codes and Convictions (2021, 30 mins): video essay by Jonathan Bygraves on the many adaptations of Marvin Flavin's 'The Criminal Code'
- The Howard Hawks Masterclass with John Carpenter (1997, 36 mins): archival audio recording of a presentation by the cult filmmaker from the British Film Institute's 1997 Howard Hawks retrospective at the National Film Theatre, London
- Lux Radio Theatre: 'The Criminal Code' (1939, 59 mins): radio adaptation starring Edward G Robinson, Beverly Roberts and Paul Guilfoyle
- Image galleries: on-set and promotional photography from 'The Criminal Code' and its lost Spanish-language version, 'El codigo penal'
- World Premiere on Blu-ray
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