Invisible Stripes (1939)

An ex-con who wants to go straight has difficulties trying to reintegrate into society while on parole.

Director:

Lloyd Bacon

Writers:

Warren Duff (screen play), Jonathan Finn (from a story by),

Stars:

George Raft, Jane Bryan, William Holden

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
George Raft	...	Cliff Taylor
Jane Bryan	...	Peggy
William Holden	...	Tim Taylor
Humphrey Bogart	...	Chuck Martin
Flora Robson	...	Mrs. Taylor
Paul Kelly	...	Ed Kruger
Lee Patrick	...	Molly
Henry O'Neill	...	Parole Officer Masters
Frankie Thomas	...	Tommy
Moroni Olsen	...	The Warden
Margot Stevenson	...	Sue
Marc Lawrence	...	Lefty
Joe Downing	...	Johnny (as Joseph Downing)
Leo Gorcey	...	Jimmy
William Haade	...	Shrank

Storyline

Cliff and Chuck leave prison together. Cliff tries the straight life but falls back into crime with Chuck and his gang. When he makes enough to enable his brother Tim to buy a garage and marry his sweetheart, Cliff quits crime again. But when he tries to help Chuck later on, he's implicated again.

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Plot Keywords:

garage | police | parole | ex con | prison | 

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Taglines:

Three Men and a Girl... Bound by Invisible Ties - Branded by Invisible Stripes

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Genres:

Crime | Drama

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Certificate:

Approved

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

30 December 1939 (USA)

Also Known As:

Homens Marcados

Filming Locations:

Sing Sing Penitentiary - 354 Hunter Street, Ossining, New York, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$500,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Warner Bros

Technical Specs

Runtime:

81 min

Sound Mix:

Mono (RCA Victor System)

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

At one point in the film, George Raft meets Humphrey Bogart and Lee Patrick leaving a movie theatre; the film that's being shown, prominently advertised, is You Can't Get Away with Murder starring Bogart.

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Goofs

When George Raft Goes into William Holden's room for a fight, he is wearing arm bands with his shirtsleeves pulled down over them. Then they disappear, and return in another shot in the same scene.

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Quotes

Parole Officer Masters: Parolees are supposed to be impervious to insults.

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Connections

References You Can't Get Away with Murder (1939)

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Soundtracks

"Sweet Georgia Brown"
(1925) (uncredited)
Music by Maceo Pinkard
Second tune played by the band at the dance

User Reviews

One of Bogart's Last Gangster Roles.

Bogart, Raft, Holden, that's a pretty darn good cast, but none the less this movie really disapointed me. George Raft wasn't entertaining at all, in a role that was made for him. William Holden was Ho-Hum as Raft's disturbed son.

Bogart alone saved this movie from the cellar with his brutally tough yet down to earth role as Raft's only root to the Gangster world that he tries to abandon.

The ending is truly tragic but again running home the fact that crime doesn't pay.