Penitentiary

Penitentiary

74 mins | Drama, Crime, Action, Romance | Feb. 5, 1938

Penitentiary stars Walter Connolly as a D.A. who becomes a prison warden and winds up overseeing the sentence of a man he prosecuted (played by John Howard).

Penitentiary

74 mins | Drama, Crime, Action, Romance | Feb. 5, 1938

Penitentiary
Penitentiary stars Walter Connolly as a D.A. who becomes a prison warden and winds up overseeing the sentence of a man he prosecuted (played by John Howard).
Producers Columbia Pictures (as Columbia Pictures Corporation)
Original title Penitentiary
Directors Arthur S. Black Jr., John Brahm
Writers Fred Niblo Jr., Martin Flavin, Seton I. Miller, Ben Oakland, Louis Silvers

Cast

Walter Connolly

as Dist. Atty. Thomas Mathews

John Howard

as William Jordan

Jean Parker

as Elizabeth Mathews

Robert Barrat

as Prison Yard Capt. Grady

Marc Lawrence

as Jack Hawkins

Arthur Hohl

as Finch

Charles Halton

as Leonard Nettleford

Edward Van Sloan

as Dr. Rinewulf

Marjorie Main

as Miss Katie Mathews