Jimmy idolizes bootlegger Matt, and when he refuses to implicate his friend, he is sent to reform school. He befriends Shorty, a boy with a heart condition, and escapes to let the world know about the brutal conditions.
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00:00:35The End
00:01:02What do you want, Mom?
00:01:04Will you take those things off the line, dear?
00:01:07I'll have to take back Mrs. Miller's wash.
00:01:10Oh, all right, Mom.
00:01:22Jimmy!
00:01:23Boom!
00:01:30I didn't scare you, did I, Mom?
00:01:32Full of tricks.
00:01:34Just like your father was, ain't you?
00:01:37Yeah.
00:01:39You ain't too big to be spanked, young man.
00:01:53I'll teach you.
00:01:58No!
00:01:59Right now!
00:02:04Well, Mom, you haven't lost your punch, have you?
00:02:15Well, you better run along.
00:02:16I've got a lot of work to do.
00:02:25I've got a lot of work to do.
00:02:30Mom!
00:02:45Mom!
00:02:47Mom! Mom! Mom!
00:02:49It's me, Jimmy.
00:02:51Oh, Mom, answer me.
00:02:52Mom! Mom!
00:02:54Mom! Mom!
00:03:01Mom!
00:03:02Mom!
00:03:05Mom!
00:03:05Mom!
00:03:35Mom!
00:03:36Mom!
00:03:38Mom!
00:03:42Mom!
00:03:58Mom!
00:04:07Mom!
00:04:11Mom!
00:04:15Mom!
00:04:21Mom!
00:04:33Mom!
00:04:34Mom!
00:04:35Mom!
00:04:37Mom!
00:04:37Mom!
00:04:38I'll go tell your Aunt Emmy.
00:04:44My poor sister.
00:04:46That poor boy.
00:04:49Jimmy!
00:04:52Don't cry, Aunt Emmy.
00:04:54Don't make it harder for the boy.
00:04:57Oh, my spinach.
00:05:07That's Mr. Kelly.
00:05:09Mr. Kelly's our boarder.
00:05:13Hi, Aunt Emmy.
00:05:17I knew you're dark past to catch up on you some day.
00:05:20No, Mr. Kelly.
00:05:21This is my nephew, Jimmy Minson.
00:05:24Oh, hello, Jimmy.
00:05:26Glad to see you.
00:05:27Say, if I knew you were going to be here for dinner, I'd have stopped at the city hall square
00:05:30and shot a buffalo or an allerman or something.
00:05:33Say, I won't be here at dinner tonight.
00:05:35No, I'm stepping out.
00:05:37With who?
00:05:38His honor, the mayor.
00:05:40That's a break for you, Jimmy.
00:05:41You can have my spinach.
00:05:42Well, over the river and skip the gutter.
00:05:46Be seeing you, folks.
00:05:47Be seeing you.
00:05:48Be seeing you.
00:05:50Mr. Kelly's a card all right.
00:05:52He always has a laugh for you.
00:05:53He sure has, hasn't he?
00:05:55Oh, Jimmy, will you take your suitcase into the dining room, dear?
00:05:58You're going to sleep on the couch.
00:06:00I suppose you're awful tired after riding around all day.
00:06:04Yes, ma'am.
00:06:20Hiya, Peggy.
00:06:22Say, honey, you look gorgeous.
00:06:23Say, I've been to a conference.
00:06:24I've been waiting for you for over an hour.
00:06:25Oh, I wouldn't have been late if I could have helped her, but I've been to a conference.
00:06:28Conference.
00:06:28Let me tell you, this can't last forever.
00:06:30You expect me to marry you?
00:06:31Listen, honey, when we're married...
00:06:33If we're married.
00:06:34And I'm not at all sure that I want to marry a man that keeps me waiting around like this.
00:06:42Frank Gebhardt, editor of the Morning Times.
00:06:44Great guy, Frank.
00:06:46You know him intimately, no doubt.
00:06:48Do I know him?
00:06:49Say we're like this.
00:06:51Hiya, Frank.
00:06:55How do you do?
00:06:57How are ya?
00:07:03Do I know that man I just spoke to?
00:07:05No, Mr. Gebhardt.
00:07:07Huh.
00:07:08What's his idea in calling me Frank?
00:07:14Well, you may know him like this, but he didn't fall over himself speaking to you.
00:07:18Oh, that's nothing, honey.
00:07:19He's so near-sighted, many of the time he passes up his own mother.
00:07:21Listen, babe, I know a new spaghetti joint you're going to be crazy about.
00:07:23Come on, honey, we'll step right in the car and I'll drive you right down there.
00:07:25Terribly sorry I'm late, baby, but get right in the car and we'll be like that.
00:07:36Is he asleep?
00:07:41I've always wanted a boy around the house.
00:07:45Outside of you, of course.
00:07:48First thing tomorrow, I'll take him around to school.
00:07:51No, I don't want you to do that.
00:07:52I don't want you to be late for...
00:07:55You haven't lost your job again.
00:08:00This morning.
00:08:02What are we going to do now?
00:08:04With another mouth to feed?
00:08:07We've always pulled through before, haven't we?
00:08:10Maybe I'll get a better job.
00:08:13Tell you what I'll do, I'll...
00:08:15I'll run down and get a newspaper now and look through the more bads.
00:08:20Don't worry, honey.
00:08:22Everything will be all right.
00:08:26Oh, baby.
00:08:29Whatever.
00:08:43I will get other people out here.
00:08:47I have to go.
00:08:48I don't know.
00:08:48I have to cry for you, but I have to cry for you.
00:08:50Okay, let's go ahead.
00:08:51Quickly, let's go ahead and get it.
00:08:51I don't know...
00:08:52I don't know.
00:08:52I can't tell you how many people out there.
00:09:00Now watch, Jimmy.
00:09:02Watch closely this time.
00:09:13Oh, it's the music in my soul, Jimmy.
00:09:15I'm so full of it, I leak.
00:09:17When I come in the door, Rudy Valley goes right out the window.
00:09:20Do you know Rudy Valley, Mr. Kelly?
00:09:23Do I know Rudy Valley?
00:09:25Do I know him?
00:09:27The megaphone was my idea.
00:09:29Well, I gotta be going.
00:09:32There you are, Jimmy.
00:09:34There's a dollar.
00:09:35That'll help reopen a couple of banks.
00:09:37Thanks, Mr. Kelly.
00:09:38Yeah.
00:09:39Could I talk to you for a moment?
00:09:41Sure, grab your hat and make it snappy.
00:09:44And Emma, I'm gonna walk down the street with Mr. Kelly.
00:09:47All right, darling.
00:10:00Well, what's on your mind, Jimmy?
00:10:02Well, you see, Mr. Kelly, it's like this.
00:10:05Hi, Red.
00:10:06How's the boy, Kelly?
00:10:08Hello, Red Green, the football player?
00:10:09Was that Red Green?
00:10:11Sure.
00:10:11Hi, Kelly.
00:10:12Hi, boys.
00:10:13Okay, boy.
00:10:15What were you saying, Jim?
00:10:16Well, you know Uncle Henry and Aunt Emma.
00:10:18Hey, Kelly.
00:10:19Yeah?
00:10:30Hey-o.
00:10:33Go ahead, Jimmy.
00:10:34What were you gonna tell me?
00:10:35Well, they've been up there.
00:10:37I don't know, Kelly.
00:10:38Well, hiya, Commissioner.
00:10:40I guess you know nearly everybody, Mr. Kelly.
00:10:43Well, I'll tell you, Jimmy.
00:10:45You see, I ain't got a lot of connections.
00:10:46That's just the reason I wanted to talk to you.
00:10:48All right.
00:10:48You see?
00:10:50Well, well, well.
00:10:52You said well, don't you?
00:10:54Jimmy, here's one for the book.
00:10:56Remember we went to that fortune teller this afternoon?
00:10:59Remember?
00:11:00Yeah.
00:11:02Oh, did you?
00:11:04Yeah.
00:11:04And he said we'd be walking down the street just like this.
00:11:07Remember, Jimmy?
00:11:12Yeah.
00:11:13And he said we'd run into the most beautiful girl in all the world.
00:11:16Now, he was right up to that point, wasn't he?
00:11:19Yeah.
00:11:20And he said, uh...
00:11:22Well, he said a lot of things that happened.
00:11:23Remember?
00:11:25Yeah, a lot of things.
00:11:26For instance...
00:11:27Well, let's see.
00:11:28For instance, he said, uh...
00:11:30He said, uh...
00:11:32Well, he said I'd ask her to go dancing.
00:11:34Remember?
00:11:36Yeah.
00:11:37Did he say where?
00:11:39I don't know.
00:11:40Did he say where, Jim?
00:11:42Sure he did.
00:11:44He said we'd go to the Rosalind Dance Palace.
00:11:45Oh, that was the place.
00:11:48All right.
00:11:49What?
00:11:51Oh, I get it.
00:11:52I catch on.
00:11:53You're the girl he was talking about all the time.
00:11:55Who is this person?
00:11:58What?
00:11:58This is Mr...
00:12:00Peggy.
00:12:00Peggy.
00:12:00I want you to meet a pal of mine.
00:12:02Jimmy Mason.
00:12:04Hello, Jimmy.
00:12:08Oh, you were only kidding.
00:12:09You knew her all the time.
00:12:12Know her?
00:12:13Say, I've known her since she was that big.
00:12:18Come on in while I leave these things.
00:12:19I'll take them, Peggy.
00:12:21Come on, Jimmy.
00:12:33Come on, Jimmy.
00:12:34Sit down, Jimmy.
00:12:36Thanks.
00:12:37Turn on the radio.
00:12:38Sure.
00:12:45Not bad, eh, Jimmy?
00:12:46Say, she's a swell girl.
00:12:48Say, you want to read the story in here by Irv Cobb.
00:12:51Good guy, you know?
00:12:52You know him, too?
00:12:53Oh, sure.
00:12:54Well, like that.
00:12:56See, I never showed you this trick, did I, Jimmy?
00:12:58Don't think so?
00:12:59No, I know I did.
00:13:00Watch it very closely.
00:13:08This is a page.
00:13:08Why do you see this?
00:13:10Mm-hmm.
00:13:17Say like that, Jim.
00:13:18That's marvelous, Mr. Kelly.
00:13:29Jimmy, weren't you trying to tell me something?
00:13:31Well, all that.
00:13:33I was wrong.
00:13:35Why, Jimmy.
00:13:36How nice.
00:13:37Getting up, I mean.
00:13:39Well, they hope.
00:13:40Let's do it for movies.
00:13:41Take Mr. Kelly to the movies sometime, won't you, Jimmy?
00:13:45Oh, I'd have gotten up, but it hadn't been for that sore knee of mine.
00:13:48Oh, well, if you've got a sore knee, you can't dance.
00:13:52What do you think of a man who asks a girl to go dancing and then has a sore knee?
00:13:57Does your mother let you associate with people like that?
00:14:02She died last week.
00:14:06Oh, Jimmy.
00:14:09I'm sorry.
00:14:10I wouldn't have.
00:14:11That's all right.
00:14:12That a boy, Jimmy.
00:14:14The old chin up all the time.
00:14:17Mom would have liked you.
00:14:18Mr. Kelly, too.
00:14:20Jimmy.
00:14:22I want you to promise me something.
00:14:24Yes, ma'am.
00:14:25Anytime you feel lonesome, will you come and see me?
00:14:29Could I?
00:14:30Anytime you want to.
00:14:32Sure, thanks.
00:14:33I sure will.
00:14:34Hey, Jim.
00:14:35When you get through cutting me out with my girl, how about going back to your aunt and uncle?
00:14:45Hello?
00:14:47Hello?
00:14:48Hello?
00:14:49I can't understand you.
00:14:53Oh, I guess it's for you.
00:15:00Hello?
00:15:01Hello?
00:15:02Hello?
00:15:04I called her up to tell you I've got everything under control.
00:15:10Everything is exactly as if you were right here.
00:15:16Right here.
00:15:18What?
00:15:19Hello?
00:15:20Say, what's the matter with you?
00:15:22You're...
00:15:22Hello?
00:15:23Hello?
00:15:24Hello?
00:15:27Sorry, baby, but that was important.
00:15:29Well, I'll be back as soon as I can, and if I can't make it, why, I'll phone.
00:15:33Never mind.
00:15:34I'll know if you're coming.
00:15:35Yeah?
00:15:35How do you know?
00:15:36I'll call up that fortune teller.
00:15:38Oh.
00:15:40All right.
00:15:41So long, darling.
00:15:43Say, I guess I'd better be going, too.
00:15:46Just thought of something.
00:15:47It's getting late, and...
00:15:49Well, good night.
00:15:51Good night, Jimmy.
00:15:52Remember you're coming to see me again.
00:15:54Well, good night.
00:15:55I had a very good time.
00:16:03Hello?
00:16:05Hello?
00:16:06Why don't you answer, Kelly?
00:16:08What's the matter?
00:16:16At it again, huh?
00:16:18Well, you're through.
00:16:20Get out.
00:16:21Oh, Kelly, you wouldn't talk to an old pal that way.
00:16:25Get out!
00:16:32All right, all right, all right, but you'll be sorry for this tomorrow when you sober up.
00:16:56Oh, I found you.
00:17:01Geez, ain't you a talenter?
00:17:03You don't mind, do you?
00:17:09Well, no.
00:17:13What I wanted to talk to you about this evening was, you see, with Uncle Henry getting laid off and
00:17:20me coming unexpected the way I did, it's kind of hard on them.
00:17:24And I thought, well, knowing everyone the way you do it, you could help me get a job.
00:17:33Well, maybe I can.
00:17:40I don't know.
00:17:42Maybe I can.
00:17:46I'd like to work for you, Mr. Kelly.
00:17:48Yeah, you would.
00:17:50You'll be here the first thing in the morning.
00:17:54Say, it's getting kind of late.
00:17:55You better run along, ain't you?
00:17:58Thanks, Mr. Kelly.
00:17:59Good night.
00:18:00So long.
00:18:02Good night.
00:18:13Well, of course, it's none of my business, but I'm sure they are bootlecks.
00:18:43Well, I've done my duty, and I'll expect you to do yours.
00:18:52Hi, Commissioner.
00:18:55Hello, kid.
00:19:24Now, listen, Jimmy, this is what I want you to do.
00:19:26You see, I'm in and out of this place all day long.
00:19:29All I want you to do is answer the phone.
00:19:33Somebody calls, tell them I'm out, but get their number.
00:19:36You can do that?
00:19:37Sure I can.
00:19:39Here's another thing.
00:19:41I do all my business over that phone.
00:19:43That door's supposed to stay locked all the time.
00:19:46Now, there ain't nobody coming in here that ain't been invited, see?
00:19:49But supposing they do?
00:19:51Yes, sir.
00:19:52You've got to have the worst memory in this man's town.
00:19:55You don't know who owns the place.
00:19:58You don't know where you live, because I live there, too.
00:20:01You don't even know my name.
00:20:03Yes, but why, Mr. Kelly?
00:20:07Well, you see, Jimmy, it's like this.
00:20:10I got a lot of big connections.
00:20:12You know that, don't you?
00:20:12Yes, sir.
00:20:13Well, you see, you see a man in my position, he's liable to have a lot of enemies, and
00:20:18you never know what they might try to do.
00:20:19Sure.
00:20:20So if anything goes wrong, no matter what it is, you get in touch with me on the quiet.
00:20:25But be sure it's on the quiet.
00:20:27And you don't know me at all.
00:20:30Oh, I get it.
00:20:31That's the stuff.
00:20:33And remember, Jimmy, Kelly's your friend.
00:20:37A guy that'll always stand behind you.
00:20:39And I'll do the same for you, too.
00:20:41K.O., Jimmy.
00:20:44K.O.
00:20:46Now, shove it up.
00:20:53Oh, and Jimmy.
00:20:55Yes, sir?
00:20:57Get a load of this.
00:20:59I'm paying you 25 bucks a week.
00:21:03Whoopee.
00:21:12K.O.
00:21:15K.O.
00:21:16K.O.
00:21:54That door.
00:21:58Open that door.
00:21:58Open up that door.
00:21:59Let's go.
00:22:45Hey, say, have you been here before?
00:22:51Say, you're taking it pretty easy for a first-timer.
00:22:55Nothing's gonna happen to me.
00:22:56What do you mean, nothing's gonna happen?
00:22:58It's happening.
00:23:00Yeah, but I got a friend.
00:23:02With connections.
00:23:13And he'll walk in here any minute.
00:23:16Burton.
00:23:17Edward Burton.
00:23:20Relatives and witnesses, come this way.
00:23:28Kelly!
00:23:28Kelly!
00:23:29Kelly!
00:23:29Okay, get down.
00:23:33Here, carried away.
00:23:33Let's get down.
00:23:34Let's go.
00:23:55Kelly.
00:23:59You're in here.
00:23:59I'm in here.
00:24:02Patrick Kelly.
00:24:30Mason. James Mason.
00:24:35Say, that friend of yours better get his connections working.
00:25:13How old are you, James?
00:25:15Fifteen. Almost.
00:25:19Ever been in trouble before?
00:25:21No, sir.
00:25:24Where do you live?
00:25:28No place to live.
00:25:29In particular.
00:25:31Parents, dead?
00:25:33Yes, sir.
00:25:35Haven't you any relatives in this town?
00:25:38Someone that we ought to notify about this?
00:25:42No, sir.
00:25:44No relatives anywhere.
00:25:48Now, James.
00:25:50Obviously, you wouldn't have found yourself in this trouble.
00:25:53If you hadn't been led astray by someone older
00:25:57and more responsible, would you?
00:26:07Would you?
00:26:12Now, come, James.
00:26:14Come now.
00:26:15We want to give you every chance to cooperate with us.
00:26:20Now, it isn't you,
00:26:22but the man who hired you that we want to reach.
00:26:25And your failure to expose him
00:26:28is really a more serious offense
00:26:30than the other charges against you.
00:26:33Now, come.
00:26:34Who was he?
00:26:38Nobody.
00:26:42Very well, then.
00:26:44You leave me no alternative.
00:26:47I'm sorry to have to do this,
00:26:50but you'll spend the next three years
00:26:52at the State Industrial School for Boys.
00:26:56with the colore рай.
00:27:18Remember, Samarbeit.
00:27:18Does his wife work in a different way.
00:27:19Yes sir,aryl one lads?
00:27:22Sure.
00:27:22John McCabe?
00:27:23Yes, sir.
00:27:24One lads!
00:27:24Three lads!
00:27:30The new batch is being numbered sir. Do you want to come out and give him a speech?
00:27:33Oh, I suppose so. How many of them are there?
00:27:37Eleven and two repeaters.
00:27:39Two repeaters. Always the repeaters.
00:27:45James Mason?
00:27:47Yes, sir.
00:27:48One, three, one, four, four. That's all.
00:27:51Attention. Mr. Thompson has something to say to you boys.
00:27:59Boys, you are here to be made into good citizens.
00:28:04I trust that you'll take advantage of this opportunity.
00:28:08You'll be taught a trade at which you can earn an honest living when you are released.
00:28:16Obey the rules and you can profit by this experience.
00:28:22Disobey them and you will be punished.
00:28:25In other words, you will get out of this institution exactly what you put into it.
00:28:33That's all.
00:28:37All right, you. Get going.
00:28:48One, three, one, seven, two. Lower berth.
00:28:53There's yours, one, three, one, four, four. Upper deck.
00:28:56First thing you do, get into your monkey jacket.
00:28:59One, three, nine, seven, four. Upper.
00:29:04One, four, six, seven, one. Lower.
00:29:09One, five, six, eight, two. Upper.
00:29:11One, nine, two, four, three. Upper.
00:29:16One, nine, two, four, three. Upper.
00:29:17One, eight, seven, four, eight, six, five.
00:29:20One, two, four, eight, six, five.
00:29:22I hear you.
00:29:24How do you have a message?
00:29:29Where did you come from?
00:29:31I got the bed above.
00:29:32All right, then get your things and scram up where you belong.
00:29:36I just thought I'd undress down here.
00:29:38Oh, yeah?
00:29:40Hey.
00:29:42Hey, what's going on here?
00:29:46What's all these rubs about?
00:29:50Oh, I just slipped and fell.
00:29:54Well, stay on your feet and get all those clothes.
00:30:04Okay, big boy.
00:30:07You can sit down here any time you want to.
00:30:12K.O.
00:30:16How long are you in for?
00:30:19Did I let you write letters from here?
00:30:21Sure, three a month. Why?
00:30:23I won't be here long.
00:30:25Oh, but you gotta be careful.
00:30:27If they read everything you write.
00:30:33What was that?
00:30:36Did the super give you the welcome speech when you first came in?
00:30:40Yeah.
00:30:41Well, that's some kid getting his for not profiting by his experience.
00:30:47Hmm.
00:30:48What's it like up here, anyhow?
00:30:51Oh, the food's terrible.
00:30:53But you can get used to it.
00:30:54And they make you sweat like a dog in the brickyard.
00:30:58Brickyard?
00:30:59Yeah.
00:30:59That's the way they support this place.
00:31:02They haven't got enough money to run it, so they make us kids work for it.
00:31:07Well, how do they treat you?
00:31:11Well, some of the guards are okay, and some of them are plenty tough.
00:31:16But they lay off me. I gotta break.
00:31:19Yeah? How?
00:31:20The old pump. It ain't no good.
00:31:24The heart, I mean. I'm lucky.
00:31:27Yeah, I guess you are.
00:31:40I didn't think you brought me down here to listen to my charming conversation.
00:31:46Charlie,
00:31:47don't let what I've said give you the impression that it has anything to do with our friendship.
00:31:53I'm not asking you to do a thing you don't want to do.
00:31:56You're only asking me to sacrifice my job to become the goat for a reform movement.
00:32:03That's not the idea at all.
00:32:05What I want you to do is to be a man.
00:32:08You know what conditions in the school are now.
00:32:12You know how badly you need the money from this bond issue to correct them.
00:32:16And I know.
00:32:17You feel the way I do.
00:32:19You'd like to see things improve.
00:32:21You'd like to see these kids given a chance.
00:32:24Wouldn't you?
00:32:25Wouldn't you?
00:32:27Now I can bring about these changes, but only by arousing public interest.
00:32:31By printing the truth.
00:32:33Now listen, Charlie.
00:32:34This is something that's got to be done.
00:32:38I can't do it.
00:32:40I'm not asking you to do it.
00:32:43Now on Thursday I'll appear at the school unexpectedly.
00:32:46With a pass.
00:32:48You don't know anything about it, how I got it.
00:32:51All I'm asking is that you let me see with my own eyes conditions as they really are.
00:32:55Not the Sunday school act you put on for visitors.
00:32:58Now will you do this, Charlie?
00:33:13I've got to be going, Frank.
00:33:27Well, Frank, I'll see you Thursday.
00:33:31Thanks, Charlie.
00:34:04Hey, Jimmy.
00:34:05I'm going to give you two now.
00:34:07That's what all us old timers do.
00:34:09Well, supposing I don't catch them.
00:34:11Oh, you'll just mash a finger.
00:34:14Oh, is that all?
00:34:16Sure.
00:34:17What do you care?
00:34:17You've got ten of them.
00:34:21I caught them.
00:34:24Okay.
00:34:25Okay, big boy.
00:34:28What, again?
00:34:29Sure, you've got to get used to it.
00:34:39Well, guess that's all.
00:34:42Well, I'll be seeing you in a couple of minutes.
00:34:45Oh, where are you going?
00:34:46To get more bricks.
00:34:48More bricks?
00:34:50Sure, you're just warming up.
00:34:57Boy, they sure make you work in this place.
00:35:01Yeah.
00:35:06Say, ain't you the guy with the connections?
00:35:08Yeah, what of it?
00:35:11I thought your friend was going to get you out of this.
00:35:14Well, he isn't.
00:35:15It's none of your business.
00:35:27Say, do you want me to show you how to pot up those bricks?
00:35:29It'll be easy on you.
00:35:32All right.
00:35:34Hey, Jack.
00:35:34Here's a new kid.
00:35:36Let's show him how to pot up the bricks.
00:35:40New kid, huh?
00:35:42Yeah.
00:35:43This is going to be swell for your muscles, too.
00:35:46Pretty strong, all right.
00:35:47Yeah.
00:35:49You ought to see me when I first did this, huh?
00:36:02There.
00:36:08There.
00:36:09Now, let's see your influential friend get you out of this.
00:36:26Hey, what's the big idea?
00:36:29Who did that?
00:36:30I did it.
00:36:32Oh, you can't do that to him.
00:36:33He's my pal.
00:36:35Yeah?
00:36:39Come on!
00:36:40Come on!
00:36:43Come on!
00:36:44Come on!
00:36:45Come on!
00:36:46Come on!
00:36:46Come on!
00:36:46Don't you think this is a playground?
00:36:52Now, just for this monkey business, you'll get no recreation hour.
00:36:56Now, hop join.
00:36:57Come on there, you.
00:36:59Come on.
00:37:00Come on.
00:37:01Come on.
00:37:02Come on.
00:37:02Come on.
00:37:05Come on.
00:37:05Come on.
00:37:11What's the good of my standing over a hot stove half a day if you don't eat something?
00:37:15I'm not hungry.
00:37:18I don't see what Jimmy could have done.
00:37:20But Mr. Kelly thought...
00:37:22Mr. Kelly.
00:37:23And while he thought, and we sat here, maybe we could have done something.
00:37:29No, I mean, Mr. Kelly did everything he could.
00:37:33He used all his influence and he couldn't do nothing.
00:37:39What could we have done?
00:37:42At least we can go up to the school and see him as soon as Mr. Kelly gets us that
00:37:48pass.
00:37:56Hiya, baby, baby, baby.
00:37:58Oh, stop it.
00:38:00What's the matter with you?
00:38:01I just washed my hands and I can't do a thing with them.
00:38:05Say, get a pipe of that new backdrop, will ya?
00:38:08Gee.
00:38:09I bet you had to fight the women off every step of the way.
00:38:12No, I'll fix that.
00:38:13I got a police car.
00:38:15Have you heard from Jimmy?
00:38:16No, not a word.
00:38:19Oh, I guess he's gone for good.
00:38:21You know, I can't get that poor kid off my mind.
00:38:25How could a boy just disappear?
00:38:28I don't know. I can't figure it.
00:38:30Haven't I tried everything?
00:38:31Police, hospitals, sheriff's office?
00:38:34Well, I guess he just beat it.
00:38:36I know.
00:38:37I was just wondering if...
00:38:39It's just like I told you, sweetheart.
00:38:41He perhaps got tired of the city and homesick for the old town and just blew.
00:38:45You know how kids are. They don't think.
00:38:47Say,
00:38:50how's for you getting under that derby of yours we got a lot of staying up to do tonight?
00:38:54Just a minute.
00:39:21What a heel you are, Kelly.
00:39:29Hey, Jimmy.
00:39:30Yeah?
00:39:31How you coming?
00:39:32All right.
00:39:33But, gosh, it's hard writing in the dark.
00:39:36I hope Mr. Kelly will be able to read it.
00:39:46Say, Shorty.
00:39:47Yeah?
00:39:47I don't see how this will ever get to him if I don't sign it or address it.
00:39:51Okay, big boy.
00:39:53You see, I slip to this guy in the hospital and tell him the address.
00:39:57Then he writes it on the envelope when he gets it outside.
00:40:01Say, Shorty.
00:40:02Yeah?
00:40:03How do you spell terrible?
00:40:06Oh, never mind how you spell it. Just write it.
00:40:10I'm coming to the part about getting you out, too.
00:40:12We're gonna stick together.
00:40:14Okay, big boy.
00:40:15Why?
00:40:18What's the matter with you?
00:40:20I swallowed a couple of peas.
00:40:22You're lucky to get peas.
00:40:23What about it?
00:40:25Oh, I mean in print shop.
00:40:26Type.
00:40:27It bother you any?
00:40:28No, but I didn't think it'd be good for me to keep on working.
00:40:31Well, work won't hurt you.
00:40:33There is only one thing to fix you up.
00:40:37I'm beginning to feel fine.
00:40:40The water's over there.
00:40:42Next.
00:40:46I keep on getting them dizzy spells.
00:40:49Well, you're the kid that got the bump on the head.
00:40:51Yeah, in the brickyard.
00:40:52Well, you'll have to wait till Tuesday when the doctor comes up.
00:40:55But here's some aspirin.
00:41:00Next.
00:41:03Next.
00:41:07Hey, you.
00:41:09You're next.
00:41:17Well, what's the matter now?
00:41:19Well, I thought maybe you could give me some of that medicine the doctor gives me.
00:41:29Oh.
00:41:30Well, I don't feel so awful bad now.
00:41:33I think maybe I could come back when the doctor's here.
00:41:36Come here.
00:42:10Come on.
00:42:20Come on.
00:42:32All right, let's have it.
00:42:41Well, your writing is nothing like this.
00:42:43Now, who wrote that?
00:42:44I did.
00:42:46It looks like that.
00:42:48You see, I wrote it in the dark.
00:42:51Now, listen, you've been here long enough to know
00:42:53that it's a serious offense to try to sneak a letter out,
00:42:56especially one that criticizes the school.
00:42:58Now, you tell me who wrote this, and I'll go easy on you.
00:43:02If you don't, if you don't, I'm going to give you solitary.
00:43:07I did it, I tell you.
00:43:09All right, have it your own way.
00:43:11You wrote it so you get six days in solitary confinement.
00:43:16You couldn't put me in solitary.
00:43:19Then tell me who wrote this letter.
00:43:26You couldn't put me in solitary confinement.
00:43:27All right, take him away.
00:43:29Come on.
00:44:04Have you got 13144 here?
00:44:07Over there.
00:44:1513144?
00:44:1713144?
00:44:18Yes, sir.
00:44:22How would you like to be a monitor?
00:44:25I don't know.
00:44:27We need more monitors, and you've been recommended.
00:44:30If I were you, I'd take it.
00:44:33Get better food, better sleeping quarters,
00:44:37and special privileges.
00:44:39Of course, you'll get your responsibilities.
00:44:41I guess so.
00:44:42Well, come on.
00:44:43Come on.
00:45:07Oh, where's Shorty?
00:45:10How should I know?
00:45:38Are you supposed to leave me?
00:45:40Yes, sir.
00:45:41Those on the mourner's bench have got two hours more to go.
00:45:45You've got to see that they keep their eyes on that line every minute of it.
00:45:49Those on the chalk line can loosen up 45 minutes more.
00:45:55There you are.
00:46:00You're the new monitor, ain't you?
00:46:02Yes, sir.
00:46:02Yes, sir.
00:46:18Here we go.
00:46:19Here we go.
00:46:22Here we go.
00:46:24Here we go.
00:48:21How do you do, Mr. Gebhardt?
00:48:22How do you do?
00:48:23I'm sorry to have to tell you that Mr. Thompson won't be able to take you through the school
00:48:27personally.
00:48:27However, he's instructed me to see that you go wherever you want.
00:48:32I see.
00:48:33Now, what would you like to see first?
00:48:36Oh, it doesn't matter.
00:48:45Now, this is our correction room.
00:48:47The boys are made to study during a recreation period.
00:49:05What do you use the white line for?
00:49:07That?
00:49:09Well, occasionally a disobedient boy is made to stand with his toes to that line while
00:49:13he studies.
00:49:41Now, these are our punishment cells.
00:49:44Is there anyone in them?
00:49:46No.
00:49:47We only use these in case of emergency.
00:49:50More comfortable than I expected.
00:50:05Well, Charlie, I've seen your Sunday school, so you lost your nerve.
00:50:18double-crossed me.
00:50:23What was the matter before?
00:50:25Never mind.
00:50:30Number five.
00:50:46Let's go.
00:50:46Here you are, buddy.
00:50:47Hey, wake up.
00:50:50Shorty!
00:50:51Shorty, what's the matter?
00:50:53Guard!
00:50:54Guard!
00:50:55Shorty, something's happened to him.
00:50:56It's just lying there.
00:50:57Get someone, quick!
00:50:58Give him that water.
00:50:59I'll be back right away.
00:51:00Let's go ahead.
00:51:13Shorty. Don't worry, Mom.
00:51:16Shorty. Don't cry, Mom.
00:51:19It's me, don't you know me?
00:51:22Jimmy's going to be disappointed when Mr. Kelly doesn't get that letter.
00:51:27Stop talking like that, Shorty.
00:51:29Jimmy.
00:51:29Of course, it's different with him.
00:51:32Come on, listen to me.
00:51:34Listen.
00:51:40Jimmy.
00:51:43What's the matter?
00:51:44Attaboy, Shorty. Now you're talking.
00:51:48How'd you get here, Jimmy?
00:51:49I was bringing you something.
00:51:51You were just...
00:51:52Oh, gee.
00:51:54Gee, that's great.
00:51:57I thought maybe they got you too.
00:52:00Got me?
00:52:01What for?
00:52:04Is that why you're in here?
00:52:06Did they find that letter?
00:52:09Yeah.
00:52:11Only, I wasn't going to tell you.
00:52:14Shorty, you're doing this for me.
00:52:16It's my fault.
00:52:18I'm going to tell them.
00:52:19I'm going to tell them I wrote it.
00:52:21And you can get out.
00:52:22But that won't do any good.
00:52:24They'll never let me off.
00:52:27I wouldn't tell them who wrote it.
00:52:29Oh, I'll make them let you off.
00:52:31I'll tell them myself.
00:52:33Don't do that, Jimmy.
00:52:35That won't help any.
00:52:37They'll just put you in solitary too.
00:52:45I'll be alright.
00:52:48The doc can fix me up.
00:52:51They'll fix you up.
00:52:52You told me yourself.
00:52:54They could never fix you up in this place.
00:52:56You need good doctors.
00:52:59Hospitals and everything.
00:53:03I'll be alright.
00:53:09I know what I'll do.
00:53:11I'll run away.
00:53:12I'll get out.
00:53:12I'll get to Mr. Kelly.
00:53:14I'll tell him.
00:53:15Oh, he'll get you out.
00:53:17Shorty.
00:53:18Shorty, do you think you can stay in this till I get a chance?
00:53:24Is that alright?
00:53:27Okay, big boy.
00:53:32Shorty.
00:53:34She is great to be home, Mom.
00:53:36Shorty.
00:53:37It ain't nothing to die.
00:53:39Oh, you're not gonna die.
00:53:59Shorty.
00:53:59Here, get out of the way.
00:54:11Take him to the hospital.
00:54:12The doctor's on his way over.
00:54:17Get back to your work.
00:54:18Oh, let me.
00:54:19Get back to your work.
00:54:20I won't.
00:54:21I can't.
00:54:22I'm going with Shorty.
00:54:23Wait a minute.
00:54:23If you're not careful, you'll lose that.
00:54:25I don't want it.
00:54:26I hate it.
00:54:27Driving kids till they can't stand up.
00:54:29Make them look like lying till they fall on the floor.
00:54:31Treat them like they weren't human beings.
00:54:33Like Shorty.
00:54:34I'm going with them.
00:54:35Let me go.
00:54:36Let me go.
00:54:37Let me go.
00:54:38Let me go.
00:54:52Let me go.
00:54:52Let me go.
00:54:52Let me make it clear.
00:54:53whale hole ciao ciao ciao ciao ciao ciao ciao ciao ciao ciao ciao ciao ciao ha ha ah oh ho
00:55:16ho ho ho ho ho ho do i hold the hell out of his face like they're back.
00:55:19No.
00:55:30Pick them up, you mug.
00:55:37All right, you don't have to help me.
00:55:39I'll do it myself.
00:55:41You're darn tootin' you well.
00:55:42I'm not gonna let my dinner get full.
00:55:44Keep going.
00:56:04How about it?
00:56:05Let her go.
00:56:14One, three, one, four, one.
00:56:16Here.
00:56:17One, three, one, four, two.
00:56:18Here.
00:56:19One, three, one, four, three.
00:56:21Here.
00:56:22One, three, one, four, four.
00:56:26One, three, one, four, four.
00:56:28One, three, one, three, one, four, five, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine,
00:56:45nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine,
00:56:45nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine,
00:56:45nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, ten, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine,
00:56:45nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine,
00:56:45nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine, nine
00:56:57Oh, my darling.
00:57:00Jimmy, don't, please.
00:57:02I got a lot to do.
00:57:03I got to get... Is Mr. Kelly home?
00:57:05He don't live here anymore.
00:57:06But boy, they're after you. Don't you know that?
00:57:08I don't care. I got to get Mr. Kelly right away.
00:57:10Where is he?
00:57:11We don't know, but what good could he do?
00:57:13Oh, I better take him back again.
00:57:14I don't care about that, long as I get help for Shorty.
00:57:16Shorty?
00:57:17Yeah, I got to get Mr. Kelly right away.
00:57:19Get my coat and a shirt.
00:57:20I think I know where I can find him.
00:57:22Let me wipe your paint off. Hold your head up, Jimmy.
00:57:24Hold your face. My goodness, but you're dirty.
00:57:26How in the world did you get all that over you?
00:57:36Jimmy!
00:57:37Mr. Kelly here.
00:57:38Better close the door.
00:57:39Jimmy, where are you?
00:57:41Mr. Kelly.
00:57:41Well, well, well. How's the weather in China?
00:57:45Say, you ought to let your friends know when you duck out like that.
00:57:47You had us worried.
00:57:48I tried to let you know in the quiet like you told me,
00:57:51but after the cops got me, I didn't have a chance.
00:57:54Shorty tried to get a letter out of the reform school, but...
00:57:56Reform school?
00:57:56Say, have they sent you to the reform school?
00:57:58Yeah, when I wouldn't tell them your name.
00:58:03What does this mean?
00:58:04Well, when the cops broke in and found all that liquor,
00:58:07of course, I knew right away they were trying to get something on you,
00:58:09counting your connections.
00:58:10I didn't want to see about that.
00:58:12But there's something you've got to do, Mr. Kelly.
00:58:13Not for me, but for a kid that's still up there, Shorty.
00:58:16He's sick.
00:58:17Unless we get him out of there right away,
00:58:18I'm afraid he's going to die.
00:58:19That's why I ran away.
00:58:21Oh, will you do something, Mr. Kelly?
00:58:23Gee, Shorty's a swell kid.
00:58:24You'd be crazy about him.
00:58:26We've got to do something quick before they catch me and take me back.
00:58:28You're not going back.
00:58:32No, Jimmy.
00:58:34You're not going back.
00:58:37I'll get in touch with her.
00:58:45Now, wait a minute.
00:58:46Let me think.
00:58:49I got it.
00:58:51Frank Gebhardt of the Times.
00:58:52Just the man.
00:58:53I'll go right down and see.
00:58:53Gee, Mr. Kelly.
00:58:55Why don't you phone him?
00:58:56Oh, no.
00:58:56You can't settle a thing like this over the phone.
00:58:59Phone him and see if he's there.
00:59:03Say, that's a good idea.
00:59:13Never mind.
00:59:15I know the number.
00:59:29Mr. Kelly is calling Mr. Gebhardt.
00:59:40Hello?
00:59:42Mr. Kelly, calling Mr. Gebhardt.
00:59:46Well, sure, he'll know.
00:59:50Oh, uh...
00:59:52Hello, Frank.
00:59:54This is Kelly.
00:59:55Kelly?
00:59:56What Kelly?
00:59:58Why, couldn't be better.
01:00:00How are you?
01:00:02Say, who is this?
01:00:03Say, Frank, I want to come right down and see you.
01:00:07Uh, listen.
01:00:09I got some real front page dope for you.
01:00:12Yeah, and that's state reform school stuff.
01:00:18Well, all right.
01:00:20Come down and see me.
01:00:24Uh, no.
01:00:25No, Frank, I can't come to dinner.
01:00:27Thanks.
01:00:28But I'll be right down.
01:00:30Uh, so long.
01:00:36Well, let's go.
01:00:40You're not doing him any good by not telling us where he went.
01:00:43The sooner you tell us, the better it'll be for him.
01:00:45You don't want him to get in any more trouble, do you?
01:00:47I tell you, we don't know where he went.
01:00:50He said he was going to see Mr. Kelly, a friend of his, who used to be our boarder.
01:00:54Where does this man Kelly live?
01:00:55Well, we don't know, and Jimmy didn't either.
01:00:58He, he just, uh, uh, thought he could find, find him.
01:01:04I guess they're on the up and up.
01:01:05I guess so.
01:01:07Now, listen, if that kid comes back here tonight, you keep him here.
01:01:10And call police headquarters.
01:01:12Yes, sir.
01:01:20Yes, sir.
01:01:21Well, let me.
01:01:22Don't you go well, Emily, me?
01:01:25You spineless old rabbit.
01:01:30Don't you go well, Emily?
01:01:39Hi.
01:01:40You know a guy named Kelly that used to live over there?
01:01:43Sure.
01:01:44Looking for him?
01:01:45Yeah.
01:01:47Will you come in, Mr. Kelly?
01:01:58Oh, Frank.
01:02:03What's your game?
01:02:05What's the idea of calling me Frank?
01:02:08Well, I'll tell you, Mr. Kevart, I, I've been reading your columns so long, I just got the feeling like
01:02:14I knew you.
01:02:16Uh-huh.
01:02:17And you know, what I told you over the phone, that front page news, that's on the level.
01:02:23Well, I know a kid who just escaped from the reform school.
01:02:28This kid?
01:02:29Yep.
01:02:31Your boy?
01:02:34Well, no, he's a pal of mine.
01:02:38What do you want out of it?
01:02:40Not a thing.
01:02:45Except that he don't go back up there.
01:02:49I can't promise that.
01:02:51All right, the deal's off.
01:02:52Now, wait.
01:02:53I can't say what I can do until I've heard the story.
01:02:55But I'll do what I can.
01:02:57He's outside now.
01:02:59Bring him in.
01:03:07Miss Maxwell, bring your book.
01:03:12Herman, break down the front page.
01:03:15Yes?
01:03:16Yes, never mind about that now.
01:03:24Jimmy?
01:03:26This is Mr. Kevart.
01:03:27How are you, Jimmy?
01:03:28Sit down.
01:03:29Take my chair, please.
01:03:31Jimmy, could you tell me how you got into the reform school and what happened there?
01:03:34Yes, sir.
01:03:35Take this, please.
01:03:37All right, tell me about it.
01:03:38Well, when I first came to live with Uncle Henry and Aunt Emma...
01:03:46Say, Joe.
01:03:48Have you hauled Kelly, his girl and a kid, in the last hour?
01:03:51No.
01:03:51Have you seen anything of them?
01:03:53No, not me.
01:03:55Say, aren't.
01:03:57No, no.
01:03:59Who did you haul that?
01:04:01Why, a young couple and a kid.
01:04:04And when I got to Mr. Kelly and told him how badly Shorty needs help, he brought me down here.
01:04:12I guess that's all.
01:04:15Just transcribe that as quickly as possible, Miss Maxwell.
01:04:17Yes, sir.
01:04:23Mr. Kevart, just got a wire on the reform school, Mr. Kevart.
01:04:26Kid died up there this afternoon.
01:04:28They say it was a case of bad heart.
01:04:30We're getting pictures.
01:04:31All right.
01:04:33I'll call you back later.
01:04:38Jimmy, will you wait in the outer office?
01:04:41There's something I want to talk to Mr. Kelly about.
01:04:43Yes, sir.
01:04:47Mr. Kevart.
01:04:48Yes, Jimmy?
01:04:49You and Mr. Kelly will do everything you can to get Shorty out of there right away, will you?
01:04:54We'll do everything for him we possibly can.
01:04:57Thank you, sir.
01:05:06Everything we possibly can.
01:05:12Kelly, that phone call, Shorty just died.
01:05:22Oh, gee, that'll be tough on a kid.
01:05:26I can keep Jimmy from going back to the reform school, but I can't do it alone, Kelly.
01:05:32You've got to help me.
01:05:33What do you mean?
01:05:34Just this.
01:05:36I want a signed confession from you clearing the boys.
01:05:38What's the idea of getting me mixed up in this?
01:05:40The only way we can save him is by proving that he was ignorant of the nature of your business.
01:05:46And that means that you'll have to admit what it is and how you deceive the boys.
01:05:50I won't do it.
01:05:51Do you want that kid to go back up there?
01:05:53Yeah, but I ain't going to Leavenworth and that's that.
01:06:05Hello, Jimmy.
01:06:06Hello.
01:06:07That's him.
01:06:08Come along.
01:06:09Call Mr. Gebhardt.
01:06:11Quick.
01:06:20Mr. Gebhardt.
01:06:22Well, gentlemen.
01:06:23This kid ran away from reform school, Mr. Gebhardt, and we're taking him back.
01:06:27Wait a minute, boys.
01:06:29I'm interested in this case.
01:06:31Will you sit down here for about five minutes?
01:06:33Jimmy won't run away.
01:06:35Will you, Jimmy?
01:06:36No, sir.
01:06:37How about it?
01:06:38Well, I guess...
01:06:39Thanks.
01:06:39Yes.
01:06:56Well, Jimmy will be starting back in five minutes.
01:07:01I can't do it.
01:07:02Oh, you can't do it.
01:07:04You made the kid believe you're the greatest guy on earth.
01:07:07And then you hid behind him to save your own skin.
01:07:10You let him go to reform school because he wouldn't squeal when you told him not to.
01:07:14And now, when you've got a chance to be the man he thinks you are, what are you going to
01:07:17do about it?
01:07:18Are you going to let him down?
01:07:20What are you, Kelly?
01:07:21A man or a rat?
01:07:24A man or a rat.
01:07:25You're a rat.
01:07:29Will you come in here in a minute, Jimmy?
01:07:31Yes, sir.
01:07:32It'll be all right, boys.
01:07:43Jimmy?
01:07:46You've got to go back to the reform school.
01:07:51There's only one man in the world who can help you.
01:07:55And he won't.
01:07:57Oh, what do you mean?
01:07:59Jimmy, you didn't know it.
01:08:01But the man you were working for was a bootlegger.
01:08:05The liquor in that place wasn't planted there.
01:08:07It belonged to him.
01:08:10And now he's too small, too mean, too cowardly to do for you what you did for him.
01:08:19Are you talking about Mr. Kelly?
01:08:21Yes.
01:08:22Listen, Mr. Gephardt.
01:08:23He may have been a bootlegger.
01:08:25That may have been his liquor.
01:08:27But when you say he wouldn't do the same for me as I would for him, it's a lie.
01:08:34You're right, Jimmy.
01:08:37You're right.
01:08:39You see, Frank's a great kidder.
01:08:43He's got to have his little joke.
01:08:45I didn't think he was kidding.
01:08:47Oh, sure he was, Jim.
01:08:49Get Peggy, will you?
01:08:50Let me.
01:08:59Well, kid, looks like I've got to go away for a long time.
01:09:05To?
01:09:06To?
01:09:06Yeah.
01:09:08Yep.
01:09:10Oh, but after all, it's no more than I got coming to me.
01:09:14But gee, Mr. Kelly.
01:09:15Oh, now look at it this way, kid.
01:09:18We're pals, ain't we?
01:09:19Oh, sure.
01:09:20Sure, we are.
01:09:22And you took it on the chin, didn't you?
01:09:25Well, no, I'm going to take it on the chin.
01:09:27And what happens?
01:09:29Mr. Gephardt gets a chance to clean up that reform school and do things for a lot of kids.
01:09:35That's the way to look at it, ain't it?
01:09:37Yeah.
01:09:38Yeah, that's the way to look at it.
01:09:41And shorty.
01:09:42Sure, that's it.
01:09:44Think of shorty.
01:09:53Oh, please don't, babe.
01:10:14How's it now, shorty?
01:10:20Okay, big boy.
01:10:39Okay, big boy.