Hard, crusty Walter Huston is the warden, appointed to the same prison where he put so many criminals as district attorney. Phillips Holmes is Graham, who killed someone while drunk, and must pay for his crime in that very prison. The awesome, weird Boris Karloff is here as a fellow prisoner. Constance Cummings in her first film role. It's predictable, but pretty good stuff, and an excellent restoration. Great quality picture and sound. Holmes died real young, just after military training for WWII in a midair collision, ironically after training to be a pilot. His personal life was full of bad luck, after losing his girlfriend to his brother, who later committed suicide. Walter Huston had been in broadway, as well as engineering before getting into pictures. He had only been in hollywood about a year when this came along. He made a great version of Rain in 1932, and is probably best known for Treasure of the Sierra Madre.
Review of The Criminal Code
