eMoviePoster.comAuction History Result 1x135 EL CODIGO PENAL Uruguayan herald '31 Spanish language version of The Criminal Code! Date Sold 10/11/2015Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Uruguayan Movie Herald (measures 5" x 6 3/4" [13 x 17 cm]; 4 pages) (Learn More) El Codigo Penal (literally translates to "The Criminal Code"), the 1931 Phil Rosen & Julio Villarreal crime thriller (based on the play "The Criminal Code" by Martin Flavin) starring Barry Norton, Maria Alba, Carlos Villarias, Manuel Arbo, Max Baron, and Maria Calvo. This was a Spanish version of "The Criminal Code", made by Columbia in 1931 and directed by Howard Hawks. Universal did the same thing with "Dracula" in 1931. They filmed the movie twice, once in English, and once in Spanish, with two entirely different casts, U.S. actors for the English version and mostly Latin actors for the Spanish version, obviously for release in Spanish speaking countries, and the same was done with this movie, except there were three versions (the English language version starred Walter Huston and Constance Cummings, and the French version starred Harry Baur). Boris Karloff appeared in the American version, but alas, he did not appear in either the Spanish or French versions. A knowledgeable collector tells us that this was the first of only 3 films that Columbia made using this process. The other two were "The Good Bad Girl" (El Pasado Acusa) and "Ten Cents A Dance" (Carne de Cabaret). It appears this movie was never released in the U.S. If anyone knows more about this movie, please e-mail us and we will post it here. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Please note that Uruguayan heralds, like Spanish heralds, were printed in large quantities, and then sent to individual theaters in Uruguay, and they would have the backs of them overprinted or stamped with their theater name and specific play dates. But because a movie might play in Uruguay for a period of a year or two (traveling from theater to theater), there is no guarantee that the date overprinted on the back of the herald is the same as the date that the herald was first printed (and the date that the movie first played in Uruguay). We strongly suspect that most movies did not reach Uruguay until a year or two after their first release in other countries, but we can't say for certain. Therefore, we don't list the date overprinted on the back of a herald as the date of the herald (or the date of the movie's first release in Uruguay) unless we know from some other source that the later year was when the movie first played in Uruguay. If it is important to you that the date on the herald is the same date as when the movie first played in its country of origin, then please look at our image of the back of this herald to see if there is a different date printed on it. Condition: very good. Learn More about condition grades
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