''The Guilty Generation'' is a 1931 American
pre-code
Pre-Code Hollywood was the brief era in the American film industry between the widespread adoption of sound in film in 1929LaSalle (2002), p. 1. and the enforcement of the Motion Picture Production Code censorship guidelines, popularly known ...
crime film
Crime films, in the broadest sense, is a film genre inspired by and analogous to the crime fiction literary genre. Films of this genre generally involve various aspects of crime and its detection. Stylistically, the genre may overlap and combin ...
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), better known by his stage name Boris Karloff (), was an English actor. His portrayal of Frankenstein's monster in the horror film ''Frankenstein'' (1931) (his 82nd film) established ...
as Tony Ricca
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Emma Dunn 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 appeared in 71 films in the USA between the pre-code era of 1930 and 1937.
He wa ...
as Jerry
* Ruth Warren as Nellie Weaver
See also
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Boris Karloff filmography
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People
* Boris (given name), a male given name
*:''See'': List of people with given name Boris
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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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