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Binding: DVD
EAN: 0883929003563
Format: NTSC, Black & White
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Running Time: 82 minutes
Sales Rank: 75595
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1939
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Parolee Chuck Martin is going straight when he gets out of jail -- straight back to a life of crime. In lockup or out in the civilian world, he knows he'll forever wear a con's Invisible Stripes. As Martin, Humphrey Bogart continues to battle and sneer his way to career stardom in this volatile social-conscience crime saga adapted from a book by warden Lewis E. Lawes. Top-billed George Raft plays Martins ex-Sing Sing yard mate Cliff Taylor, who vows to walk away from crime and be a role model for his kid brother (William Holden). But what awaits Taylor are suspicion, public disdain and joblessness. So he turns to a fellow con for help. Then, as now, he finds crime doesnt pay.
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - The end of the gangster genre at Warner Brothers
By 1939, when "Invisible Stripes" was released, the gangster cycle at Warner Brothers was coming to an end. The Hays Office had strangled the genre and the War was soon to take over. The film stars George Raft as an ex-con trying to go straight but unable to make headway due to the invisible stripes of being on parole. Raft was a wooden and unimaginative actor whose stardom was as much based on his notoriety as an ex-gangland figure as any magnetism he brought to the screen. He is arguably at his ... Read More
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