Criminal Code

Criminal Code (1931)

  • 83% want to see it
    (19 ratings)

Howard Hawks' early sound prison melodrama, based on a play by Martin Flavin, already contains his stylistic signature of over-lapping dialogue -- a technique he would greatly expand upon in the next ten years. Walter Huston is district attorney Brady, who quickly convicts Robert Graham (Phillips… More

Unrated, 1 hr. 38 min.
Directed By
Howard Hawks
Written By
Fred Niblo, Seton I. Miller
Genres
Drama, Romance

Critic Reviews

  • Mordaunt Hall, New York Times

    Granted that Howard Hawks's direction is for the most part intelligent and firm, there are occasional sequences which he spoils by extravagant ideas or by leaving too little to the imagination.

  • Michael E. Grost, Classic Film and Television

    Prison melodrama is stuffy and uninventive, despite good cast.

  • Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews

    Unsentimental prison drama.

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