Invisible stripes [videorecording] / Warner Bros. Pictures presents a Warner Bros.-First National picture ; produced by Hal B. Wallis ; screenplay by Warren Duff ; directed by Lloyd Bacon.
Title from container. George Raft, Jane Bryan, William Holden, Humphrey Bogart, Flora Robson, Paul Kelly, Henry O'Neill, Lee Patrick. Originally released as a motion picture in 1939. Special features: Commentary by historians Alain Silver and James Ursini; Warner Night at the Movies 1939 short subjects gallery; vintage newsreel; Technicolor historical short "The Monroe doctrine;" two musical shorts: "Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Crawford at home" and the Technicolor "Quiet, please;" classic cartoons "Bars and stripes forever" and "Hare-um scare-um;" trailers.
Summary:
Chuck Martin is going straight when he gets out of the big house - straight back into a life of crime. In lockup or out in the civilian world, he knows that he will forever wear a con's invisible stripes. Martin's ex-Sing Sing yardmate Cliff Taylor, vows to walk away from crime and be a role model for his kid brother. What awaits Taylor are suspicion, public disdain and joblessness. He turns to a fellow con for help. Crime doesn't pay, but it does have a price.
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