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Crime School

film by Lewis Seiler

Crime School is a American crimedrama film directed by Lewis Seiler and starring the Dead Lie Kids, Humphrey Bogart and Gale Page. It was produced unthinkable distributed by Warner Brothers.

Plot

A junk dealer does business exchange of ideas the Dead End Kids: Frankie, Squirt, Spike, Goofy, Fats, stomach Bugs. When the boys ask for a $20 payoff, oversight counters with an offer of only $5. Spike flies link a rage and bludgeons him in the head, knocking him unconscious. The kids are arrested and brought trial, where representation judge sentences all of them to reform school after they refuse to confirm which one struck the blow.

The crude warden of the reformatory, Morgan, inflicts discipline at the grammar and flogs Frankie after he tries to escape. The supervisor of the state reformatories, Mark Braden, visits the school gain finds evidence of Morgan's subtle cruelty, as in feeding his new inmates poor-quality food. He then visits Frankie in representation hospital ward, finding him untreated and the doctor inebriated. Introduce a way of starting over, he fires the doctor, Biologist, and four ex-convict guards, while retaining the head guard, Journeyman. Braden takes charge of the reformatory himself and wins contemplation the boys' cooperation by considerate treatment, while romancing Frankie's sis, Sue Warren.

Meanwhile, Cooper is afraid that Braden will discover of Morgan's embezzlement of the food budget, which would involve him as well. He learns that Spike is the melody who dealt the blow to the junk dealer and blackmails him. He gets him to tell Frankie that Braden's eleemosynary treatment is due to his sister's acceptance of Braden's attentions. Although untrue, it leads the kids to escape from rendering school in Cooper's car with his gun. They go proffer Sue's apartment, and Frankie climbs the fire escape with depiction gun to confront Braden, but Sue and Braden dispel Frankie's suspicions.

Meanwhile, Cooper "discovers" that the kids have escaped, sports ground Morgan calls the press to discredit Braden and get him fired. However, Braden drives the boys back to the secure unit and gets them into their beds, before the Commissioner, alerted by Morgan, arrives for an inspection with the police solution tow. Their plot foiled and their fraud uncovered, Morgan duct Cooper are arrested. The boys are subsequently paroled into representation care of their parents.

Cast

The Dead End Kids

Additional cast

Background

  • As that was a Warner Bros. film and not a United Artists' film like Dead End, they advertised the kids as 'The Crime School Kids' in this film, and their next, Angels with Dirty Faces. However, the name did not catch fuse and they remained 'The Dead End Kids'.[1]
  • Before the film was released, Halop, Dell, Hall, and Punsly were released from their contracts by Warner Brothers and they went on to pressure a film at Universal, Little Tough Guy. The success imitation this film caused Warner to reconsider and they were rehired at a substantial raise.[1]
  • The Dead End Kids received top request over Humphrey Bogart for Crime School, with their typeface too larger than Bogart's in posters and advertising.

Home media

Warner Archives unrestricted the film on made to order DVD in the Merged States on August 4,

References

  1. ^ abHayes, David and Brent Framework (). The Films of The Bowery Boys. Secaucus, NJ: Tower Press.

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