--- title: 'Penitentiary (1938)' type: 'film' director: 'John Brahm' released: '1938-01-01' runtime_minutes: 74 genres: - 'Drama' countries: - 'United States' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/penitentiary-1938' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0030567/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # Penitentiary (1938) 1938 · 74 min · Drama · United States ## Synopsis 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). ## Credits - **Director:** [John Brahm](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-brahm) - **Screenplay:** [Seton I. Miller](https://cinepixo.com/people/seton-i-miller) - **Original Music Composer:** [Morris Stoloff](https://cinepixo.com/people/morris-stoloff) - **Producer:** [Robert North](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-north) ## Cast - [Jean Parker](https://cinepixo.com/people/jean-parker) - [Robert Barrat](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-barrat) - [Stanley Andrews](https://cinepixo.com/people/stanley-andrews) - [Paul Fix](https://cinepixo.com/people/paul-fix) - [Robert Allen](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-allen) - [Walter Connolly](https://cinepixo.com/people/walter-connolly) - [Arthur Hohl](https://cinepixo.com/people/arthur-hohl) - [James Flavin](https://cinepixo.com/people/james-flavin) - [George Magrill](https://cinepixo.com/people/george-magrill) - [Marjorie Main](https://cinepixo.com/people/marjorie-main) - [Ann Doran](https://cinepixo.com/people/ann-doran) - [Edward Hearn](https://cinepixo.com/people/edward-hearn) - [Lester Dorr](https://cinepixo.com/people/lester-dorr) - [Ethan Laidlaw](https://cinepixo.com/people/ethan-laidlaw) - [Al Hill](https://cinepixo.com/people/al-hill) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/penitentiary-1938 Film facts: Wikidata (Q16254058); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.