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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Directed by: Howard Hawks
Howard Hawks (Twentieth Century) made his first film for Columbia Pictures with this pre-Code prison movie. The great Walter Huston (Dragonwyck) stars as a district attorney-turned-prison warden who gets to witness first-hand the effects of his convictions, especially Phillips Holmes (An American Tragedy), imprisoned after killing a man in a drunken brawl. Co-starring Boris Karloff (Frankenstein), The Criminal Code is tough, no-nonsense, quintessential Hawks.
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Format:
Blu-ray
Disc:
BD-25 (1 Disc)
Total: 1 Disc
Regions:
B (Blu-ray)
Aspect Ratio:
1.33:1
Audio Options:
English PCM Mono 1.0
Resolution:
1080p/24
Subtitles:
English
Supplements
Types of Supplements Included: Audio Commentary, Audio Interview, Interview, Video Essay, Radio Program, Gallery
- Audio commentary with film historian Nora Fiore (2021)
- Behind the Mask (2021, 26 mins): author and critic Kim Newman discusses the non-horror career of actor Boris Karloff
- Codes and Convictions (2021, 30 mins): video essay by Jonathan Bygraves on the many adaptations of Marvin Flavin’s The Criminal Code
- The Howard Hawks Masterclass with John Carpenter (1997, 36 mins): archival audio recording of a presentation by the cult filmmaker from the British Film Institute’s 1997 Howard Hawks retrospective at the National Film Theatre, London
- Lux Radio Theatre: ‘The Criminal Code’ (1939, 59 mins): radio adaptation starring Edward G. Robinson, Beverly Roberts and Paul Guilfoyle
- Image galleries: on-set and promotional photography from The Criminal Code and its lost Spanish-language version, El código penal
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