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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 but the award went to Howard Estabrook for Cimarron.
Pre-Code Hollywood is the era in the American film industry after the introduction of sound in the early 1920s [1] and the enforcement of the Motion Picture Production Code (Hays Code) censorship guidelines. Although the Code was adopted in 1930, oversight was poor and it did not become effectively enforced until July 1, 1934.
Cast Country Notes 1930: The Big House: George W. Hill: Chester Morris, Wallace Beery, Robert Montgomery: United States: Prison film [1] Born Reckless: John Ford, Andrew Bennison: Edmund Lowe, Catherine Dale Owen, Lee Tracy: United States [2] The Cat Creeps: Rupert Julian, John Willard: Helen Twelvetrees, Raymond Hackett, Neil Hamilton: United ...
Stirred into action by the 1930 Ohio penitentiary fire, which resulted in 300 deaths when guards refused to let inmates out of their cells, Hollywood produced movies which depicted the harsh conditions in prisons at the time. The prototype of the prison genre was 1930's The Big House. The picture features future genre staples such as solitary ...
The Chain Gang (1930 film) Condemned Women; The Criminal Code; D. Day of Reckoning (1933 film) Devil's Island (1939 film) E. Each Dawn I Die; F. Fury (1936 film) H.
Download QR code; Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; ... 1930 crime films (1 C, 30 P) 1931 crime films (1 C, 49 P)
Cast Genre Notes Abraham Lincoln: D. W. Griffith: Walter Huston, Kay Hammond: Historical drama: United Artists [1] Across the World with Mr. and Mrs. Johnson: J. Leo Meehan: Martin and Osa Johnson, George Eastman: Documentary Martin Johnson Productions [2] Africa Speaks! Walter Futter: Paul Hoefler, Lowell Thomas: Documentary: Columbia [3 ...
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:1930 films. It includes 1930 films that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Pages in category "1930 crime drama films"