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...also provide, for those who saw the play last year, illustration of the differences between theatrical and cinema technique when each is properly handled. On the stage The Criminal Code was a parable. The misfortunes heaped on the protagonist?a boy who learns in prison how to be a criminal??? were fashioned to provide a lesson. As a cinema, the realism of scenes in the prison itself?the cells, yard, jute-mill, dungeons ?pours life into the theatrical skeleton. Even the romance between Robert Graham and the warden's daughter (Constance Cummings) is not as absurd as it might...
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