Penitentiary (1938)
- Directed by
- John Brahm
- Genre
- drama film, prison film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 14m
- Rated
- NR
- Rating
- 7.0 of 10 from 1 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A man is sent to prison after a crime goes wrong. Inside, he struggles with the harsh system and tries to prove his innocence.
tensebleakclaustrophobicdramaticsomberurgentrestrainednoirish
What happens
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). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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