Desc: The Penal Code: Directed by George Melford. With Regis Toomey, Helen Cohan, Pat O'Malley, Robert Ellis. A young boy in a small town turns to a life of crime. After serving a prison sentence, he returns home determined to go straight but finds himself being blackmailed into a safecracking operation at a bank--organized by his romantic rival, who is planning to set him up to go back to prison again.