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Codice penale

Titolo originale: The Criminal Code
  • 1931
  • Approved
  • 1h 37min
VALUTAZIONE IMDb
6,9/10
1539
LA TUA VALUTAZIONE
Constance Cummings, Phillips Holmes, and Walter Huston in Codice penale (1931)
CrimeDramaRomance

Aggiungi una trama nella tua linguaAfter a failed attempt at running for governor, D.A. Mark Brady is appointed warden of the state prison where many of the criminals he prosecuted are incarcerated.After a failed attempt at running for governor, D.A. Mark Brady is appointed warden of the state prison where many of the criminals he prosecuted are incarcerated.After a failed attempt at running for governor, D.A. Mark Brady is appointed warden of the state prison where many of the criminals he prosecuted are incarcerated.

  • Regia
    • Howard Hawks
  • Sceneggiatura
    • Martin Flavin
    • Fred Niblo Jr.
    • Seton I. Miller
  • Star
    • Walter Huston
    • Phillips Holmes
    • Constance Cummings
  • Vedi le informazioni sulla produzione su IMDbPro
  • VALUTAZIONE IMDb
    6,9/10
    1539
    LA TUA VALUTAZIONE
    • Regia
      • Howard Hawks
    • Sceneggiatura
      • Martin Flavin
      • Fred Niblo Jr.
      • Seton I. Miller
    • Star
      • Walter Huston
      • Phillips Holmes
      • Constance Cummings
    • 35Recensioni degli utenti
    • 23Recensioni della critica
  • Vedi le informazioni sulla produzione su IMDbPro
  • Vedi le informazioni sulla produzione su IMDbPro
    • Candidato a 1 Oscar
      • 3 vittorie e 1 candidatura in totale

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    Walter Huston
    Walter Huston
    • Mark Brady
    Phillips Holmes
    Phillips Holmes
    • Robert Graham
    Constance Cummings
    Constance Cummings
    • Mary Brady
    Boris Karloff
    Boris Karloff
    • Galloway
    DeWitt Jennings
    DeWitt Jennings
    • Captain Gleason
    • (as De Witt Jennings)
    Mary Doran
    Mary Doran
    • Gertrude Williams
    Ethel Wales
    Ethel Wales
    • Katie Ryan
    Clark Marshall
    Clark Marshall
    • Runch
    Arthur Hoyt
    Arthur Hoyt
    • Leonard Nettleford
    John St. Polis
    John St. Polis
    • Dr. Rinewulf
    Paul Porcasi
    Paul Porcasi
    • Tony Spelvin
    • (as Paul Porcassi)
    Otto Hoffman
    Otto Hoffman
    • Jim Fales
    John Sheehan
    John Sheehan
    • McManus
    Richard Bishop
    • Minor Role
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    Andy Devine
    Andy Devine
    • Cluck - a Convict with knife
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    James Guilfoyle
    • Detective Doran
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    Frank Hagney
    Frank Hagney
    • Prison Guard in Yard
    • (partecipazione non confermata)
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    Al Hill
    Al Hill
    • Jerry
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    • Regia
      • Howard Hawks
    • Sceneggiatura
      • Martin Flavin
      • Fred Niblo Jr.
      • Seton I. Miller
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    8MissSimonetta

    Criminally underrated!

    The Criminal Code (1931) is often passed over when it comes to discussion of the films of Howard Hawks, but it's actually one of my favorites from him.

    There are a lot of stagey aspects to be sure and the central love story is pretty boring, but there's just so much to love. The film experiments with sound, overlapping dialogue and using crowd noise as a plot element.

    The two standout actors are Walter Huston and a pre-stardom Boris Karloff. Anytime either of them walks on screen, everyone else just evaporates. Huston does a great job making the audience love and despise his character. And Karloff is just mesmerizing as Galloway, a convict hell-bent on vengeance.

    No masterpiece, but it is an early sign of Hawks' genius. And I would take it over Bringing Up Baby (1938) and His Girl Friday (1940) any day of the week.
    8bkoganbing

    "Somebody's Got To Pay"

    In The Criminal Code the bywords of District Attorney Walter Huston is that where there is a crime, someone has to pay. Or if you can't do the time, don't do the crime as a later philosopher named Tony Baretta opined. And it's Huston's job to set the price when he prosecutes.

    But Huston recognizes that young Phillips Holmes with a proper criminal defense attorney might do little time or even be acquitted. He smashed some poor guy's head in with a full bottle of bootleg hooch when he thought he was going for a gun. Still Holmes is convicted and he gets a ten year sentence.

    Fast forward several years and Huston is no longer the District Attorney, he's now the warden of the prison that Holmes is incarcerated. Huston gives Holmes a chance and he makes him a trustee. Huston's daughter Constance Cummings even falls for Holmes.

    But they have a different code among the convicts in prison and the biggest commandment is thou shalt not rat. When Boris Karloff does a particular rat in Holmes almost takes the fall for it because of that code.

    The leads do a fine job in this, but the performances of Boris Karloff as the hardened convict and Clark Marshall as his victim really do stand out in The Criminal Code. Marshall especially, you can really feel his fear in his performance.

    Beginning originally as a Broadway play, The Criminal Code was remade twice by Columbia Pictures, Harry Cohn not being one to let a good property go to waste. The two remakes are Penitentiary with Walter Connolly and John Howard and Convicted with Broderick Crawford and Glenn Ford.

    The film holds up very well because the themes are eternal. Criminals have to pay the price when caught and rats are just as unpopular as ever.
    7Philipp_Flersheim

    Well-intentioned, suspenseful but with poor dialogue

    Robert Graham (Phillips Holmes) accidentally kills a man and is imprisoned for manslaughter. Some years later, the district attorney who - applying the criminal code verbatim - had got him into jail (Walter Huston) becomes prison warden and tries to rehabilitate him. That turns out to be hard because Graham has meanwhile learned another kind of criminal code: the values and standards that govern the behaviour of the prisoners. This is a well-intentioned film that is critical of the way the US prison system was run. It tells a good story and manages to generate a lot of suspense. The pacing is good, too - the thing gets never dull. There is even a bit of a romance, though this plays a rather minor role. I found the quality of the acting somewhat mixed. Huston, Holmes and Boris Karloff (who plays another prisoner) are doing very well, Constance Cummings (Huston's daughter and Holmes love interest) less so: At least in some scenes, she appeared rather wooden and stiff. What I found disappointing is the quality of the dialogue. Huston's default answer to almost anything he is told seems to be 'oh yeah?!' (a few years later - in 'It Happened One Night', 1934 - Clark Gable would make fun of dialogues that consisted of nothing but 'oh yeah?!'s). Whoever wrote the dialogues for 'The Criminal Code' did this otherwise good film no service.
    9sscalici

    The Criminal Code straddles the line between 2 societies

    Sometimes you seem to get into a position where you have to take your medicine for an even unintended actions. That is what happens to poor 20-year-old Bob Graham, and within 10 minutes into the movie, he's in the infinite world of prison, where he must learn yet another set of codes of the criminal sort. Creepy Ned Galloway (Boris Karloff just before his "Frankenstein" turn) takes a rather minor (at least early on) role and fills it with gusto (maybe its that creepy little haircut) in a claustrophobic cell. Later, he does the right thing for rehabilitated and soon-to-be-paroled (maybe) Graham, who does not violate the titular Criminal Code (since he's still a con).

    James Whale wanted Karloff for his monster after seeing Boris in this flick, and after you see it, you'll know why.

    BTW, who doesn't love a good prison movie yarn, and with Karloff in it, it rates a "9."
    10whpratt1

    CRIMINAL CODE HELPED KARLOFF

    Boris Karloff appeared on the stage of the Belasco Theatre, New York City in the role of Galloway in a Martin Flavin stage play. It was a minor part, however, it was an important one: Galloway, the prison trusty who becomes a killer. On the strength of his performance, he was soon cast in the film version. During 1931-32, twenty-three of his films were released, an average of nearly one a month which included Frankenstein. Criminal Code was the big break Karloff was waiting for and he never gave up acting until the very end.

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      The prison yard sequence was shot at M-G-M, using the set originally built for "The Big House" (1930).
    • Blooper
      Paul Porcasi's name is spelled "Porcassi" in the opening credits.
    • Citazioni

      Mark Brady: [to Graham] Tough luck, Bob, but that's the way they break sometimes. You got to take them the way they fall.

    • Curiosità sui crediti
      The film's credits do not say that Howard Hawks directed the film; instead, they say that the film is "A Howard Hawks Production."
    • Connessioni
      Alternate-language version of El código penal (1931)
    • Colonne sonore
      Romance
      (uncredited)

      Music by Henry Geehl

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    • Data di uscita
      • 3 gennaio 1931 (Stati Uniti)
    • Paese di origine
      • Stati Uniti
    • Lingua
      • Inglese
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      • The Criminal Code
    • Luoghi delle riprese
      • Columbia/Sunset Gower Studios - 1438 N. Gower Street, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, Stati Uniti(Brady's office)
    • Azienda produttrice
      • Columbia Pictures
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      • Black and White

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