| Penitentiary | |
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| Directed by | John Brahm |
| Screenplay by | Seton I. Miller Fred Niblo, Jr. |
| Based on | the play The Criminal Code by Martin Flavin |
| Produced by | Robert North |
| Starring | Walter Connolly John Howard Jean Parker Robert Barrat |
| Cinematography | Lucien Ballard |
| Edited by | Viola Lawrence |
| Music by | Morris Stoloff |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
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Running time | 79 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Penitentiary is a 1938 American crime film directed by John Brahm starring Walter Connolly, John Howard, Jean Parker and Robert Barrat.[1] 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 (1930) and followed by Henry Levin's Convicted (1950).