The filmgoers' annual (1932)

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Record Details:

Title:
The filmgoers' annual
Date:
1932
Publisher:
London : Simpkin Marshall, Limited
Volume:
The filmgoers' annual (1932)
Leaf #:
000138
Language:
English
Subjects:
Motion Pictures, Film Industry Yearbook",nyarc-museumofmodernar
Collection:
Global Cinema, United Kingdom, Hollywood Studio System, and Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
The Museum of Modern Art Library, New York
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
August 01, 2024
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130 The Filmgoers' Annual A-W talking picture in /~\ which you find Walter Huston is thereby distinguished. You may see, in pictures on page 1 24 something of his infinite variety as an actor. In this drama of prison life in America, Walter Huston is seen, first as a District Attorney and then as a prison warden who is concerned in the condemnation and in the salvation of a youth who is imprisoned on a charge ot manslaughter. Political circumstance compels the Attorney to prosecute the case r , , .. } THE j CRIMINAL CODE with vindictiveness rather than vigour, so that a maximum sentence is imposed ; but the warden make sample atonement. The film gets its title from the circumstance that the youth of the drama sees a murder committed in prison, but the stern code of the criminal keeps him quiet. The story ends in a tremendous climax with a riot within the prison, and a romantic " curtain." ' The Criminal Code " is one of the most realistic talking pictures of American prison life yet seen on the screen. It has a sufficient element of romance to yield a happy ending, but, for the reater part of its length, it is an uncompromising revelation ot the savagery of prison life with many fine dramatic moments.