klu9@piefed.socialThe Frankenstein post reminded me I recently saw Karloff shine in a non-horror role in this Howard Hawks-directed prison drama from earlier in 1931, as I’ve been watching films shot by cinematographer James Wong Howe
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.
Streams
- https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/the-criminal-code
- https://archive.org/details/the.-criminal.-code.-1930 (1:36:27, 1080p, English soft subs)
- https://archive.org/details/1931thecriminalcode (1:36:19, 480p, no subs)
- https://youtu.be/YfKwQCNN5O4 (1:36:31, 480p, no subs)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_Criminal_Code_(1930).webm (1:36:24, English soft subs)
The Criminal Code on NeoDB