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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.
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 ...
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.
A triumvirate of gangster pictures were released in the early 1930s—Little Caesar (1931), The Public Enemy (1931), and Scarface (1932)—which were built on the template created by the first gangster movie, 1927's Underworld. All featured the rise and eventual fall of an organized criminal.
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 ...
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The screenplay, by Ben Hecht, is based loosely on the novel first published in 1930 by Armitage Trail, which was inspired by Al Capone. The film stars Paul Muni as Italian immigrant gangster Antonio "Tony" Camonte who violently rises through the Chicago gangland, with a supporting cast that includes George Raft and Boris Karloff. Camonte's rise ...