''The Guilty Generation'' is a 1931 American
pre-code
Pre-Code Hollywood was an era in the Cinema of the United States, American film industry that occurred between the widespread adoption of sound in film in the late 1920s and the enforcement of the Motion Picture Production Code censorship gui ...
crime film
Crime film is a film belonging to the crime fiction genre. Films of this genre generally involve various aspects of crime and fiction. Stylistically, the genre may overlap and combine with many other genres, such as Drama (film and television), dr ...
directed by
Rowland V. Lee and starring
Leo Carrillo,
Constance Cummings and
Robert Young.
Plot
The children of feuding gangsters fall in love and fight to escape their parents' notoriety.
Cast
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Leo Carrillo as Mike Palmiero
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Constance Cummings as Maria Palmiero
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Robert Young as Marco Ricca
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Boris Karloff
William Henry Pratt (23 November 1887 – 2 February 1969), known professionally as Boris Karloff () and occasionally billed as Karloff the Uncanny, was a British actor. His portrayal of Frankenstein's monster in the horror film ''Frankenstei ...
as Tony Ricca
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Emma Dunn
Emma Dunn (26 February 1875 – 14 December 1966) was an English actress. After starting her acting career on stage in London, she became known for her works in numerous films and Broadway productions.
Career
Emma Dunn appeared onstage in ...
as Nina Palmero
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Leslie Fenton as Joe Pamiero
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Murray Kinnell
Murray Kinnell (24 July 1889 – 11 August 1954) was a British-born American actor, recognized for playing smooth, gentlemanly, although rather shady characters. He began acting on the English stage in 1907, toured in the United States from 1912 ...
as Jerry
* Ruth Warren as Nellie Weaver
See also
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Boris Karloff filmography
External links
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1931 films
1931 drama films
American black-and-white films
American drama films
Columbia Pictures films
Films directed by Rowland V. Lee
1930s English-language films
1930s American films
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