The Criminal Code
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).