Invisible Stripes is a 1939 Warner Bros. crime film about a gangster (George Raft) unable to go straight after returning home from prison. The movie was directed by Lloyd Bacon and also features William Holden and Humphrey Bogart. The screenplay by Warren Duff was based on the novel of the same name by Warden Lewis E. Lawes, a fervent crusader for prison reform, as adapted by Jonathan Finn.
Cliff Taylor (George Raft) is an ex-con who wants to go ...
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Invisible Stripes is a 1939 Warner Bros. crime film about a gangster (George Raft) unable to go straight after returning home from prison. The movie was directed by Lloyd Bacon and also features William Holden and Humphrey Bogart. The screenplay by Warren Duff was based on the novel of the same name by Warden Lewis E. Lawes, a fervent crusader for prison reform, as adapted by Jonathan Finn.
Cliff Taylor (George Raft) is an ex-con who wants to go straight, but since being released from prison on parole, he finds it hard to find and hold a job because of his criminal past. His brother Tim (William Holden) follows in his older brother's footsteps and joins up with Charles Martin's (Humphrey Bogart) gang in an attempt to support himself and his girlfriend Peggy (Jane Bryan).
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Time Out Film Guide calls Invisible Stripes "A thoroughly predictable tale of the tribulations of an ex-con.". A New York Times review from 1940 commented about the unusual lack of prison scenes in the...
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