Penitentiary (1938)
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The story of a D.A. who becomes a prison warden and winds up overseeing the sentence of a man he prosecuted.
- Date of release
- 1938-02-05
- TMDB
- 7.0 / 10 (1)
- Runtime
- 1h 14m
- Genres
- Action, Crime, Drama, Romance
- Director
- John Brahm
Casting
- Walter Connolly — Dist. Atty. Thomas Mathews
- John Howard — William Jordan
- Jean Parker — Elizabeth Mathews
- Robert Barrat — Prison Yard Capt. Grady
- Marc Lawrence — Jack Hawkins
- Arthur Hohl — Finch
- Charles Halton — Leonard Nettleford
- Edward Van Sloan — Dr. Rinewulf
- Marjorie Main — Miss Katie Mathews
- Stanley Andrews — Prison Captain Dorn (uncredited)
- Ward Bond — Red Parsons - Prison Barber (uncredited)
Interesting facts
Penitentiary is a 1938 American crime film directed by John Brahm starring Walter Connolly, John Howard, Jean Parker and Robert Barrat. It was the second Columbia Pictures film adaptation of the 1929 stage play The Criminal Code by Martin Flavin, after Howard Hawk's The Criminal Code (1931) and followed by Henry Levin's Convicted (1950).
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