# The Criminal Code (1931)

The Criminal Code is a 1931 American pre-Code romantic crime drama film directed by Howard Hawks and starring Walter Huston and Phillips Holmes. The screenplay, based on a 1929 play of the same name by Martin Flavin. It follows Robert Graham, a young man sentenced to ten years in prison for manslaughter after defending his girlfriend in a bar fight. Six years later, the district attorney who prosecuted him becomes the prison warden, offering Graham a chance at redemption, but he faces challenges from fellow inmates and must navigate the prison's code of silence.

- Kind: Feature
- Year: 1931
- By: Howard Hawks
- Genres: Drama, Crime, Romance
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/the.-criminal.-code.-1930)
- Licence or status: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/ia/the.-criminal.-code.-1930?play=1)