10 Jan 1930
Playing Around
New York girl has a dull boyfriend and seems destined for a dull marriage when she meets a rich playboy who has money to burn and places to go.
The Criminal Code
LOVE saved him from worse than THE CHAIR
After young Robert Graham commits a murder while drunk and defending his girlfriend, he is prosecuted by ambitious Mark Brady and sentenced to 10 years. Six years later, Brady becomes the prison warden and offers the beleaguered Robert a job as his chauffeur. Robert cleans up his act, but, on the eve of his pardon, his cellmate drags him back into the world of violence, and he faces a difficult choice that could return him to prison.
Top Billed Cast
Walter Huston Mark Brady
Phillips Holmes Robert Graham
Constance Cummings Mary Brady
Boris Karloff Ned Galloway
DeWitt Jennings Yard Captain Gleason
Mary Doran Gertrude Williams
Ethel Wales Katie Ryan
Clark Marshall Runch
Arthur Hoyt Leonard Nettleford
John St. Polis Dr. Rinewulf
Paul Porcasi Tony Spelvin
Otto Hoffman Jim Fales
John Sheehan 'Mac' McManus
Andy Devine Cluck (uncredited)
Bob Kortman Red, the Convict Barber (uncredited)
James Guilfoyle Detective Doran
Frank Hagney Prison Guard in Yard
Al Hill Jerry
Russell Hopton State's Attorney
Harold Huber Convict in Yard
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