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The Criminal Code (1930)

Name: The Criminal Code
Director: Howard Hawks
Genre: drama film, prison film, crime film
Rating: 6.9

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…

Directed by Howard Hawks · Shot by James Wong Howe, Ted Tetzlaff · Cut by Edward Curtiss

Behind the scenes

Respect the criminal code | Andrew Gason | TEDxMelbourne — TEDx Talks · 17 min

Elsewhere

More by Howard Hawks

A Little Princess — 1917
In Again, Out Again — 1917
Go and Get It — 1920
The Road to Glory — 1926
Fig Leaves — 1926
Paid to Love — 1927
Cradle Snatchers — 1927
The Air Circus — 1928
Fazil — 1928
A Girl in Every Port — 1928
Trent's Last Case — 1929
The Dawn Patrol — 1930
Scarface — 1932
Tiger Shark — 1932
La foule hurle — 1932
The Crowd Roars — 1932
Today We Live — 1933
The Prizefighter and the Lady — 1933
Viva Villa! — 1934
Twentieth Century — 1934
Barbary Coast — 1935
Ceiling Zero — 1936
Come and Get It — 1936
The Road to Glory — 1936
Sutter's Gold — 1936
Bringing Up Baby — 1938
Only Angels Have Wings — 1939
His Girl Friday — 1940
Ball of Fire — 1941
Sergeant York — 1941

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