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Crime School (1938)A gang of underprivileged teenagers are sentenced to serve two years in a reform school after almost killing a criminal fence who attacked them. Director:Lewis Seiler |
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Mark Braden
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Billy Halop | ... |
Frankie Warren
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Bobby Jordan | ... |
Squirt
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Huntz Hall | ... |
Goofy
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Leo Gorcey | ... |
Spike
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Bernard Punsly | ... |
Fats
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Gabriel Dell | ... |
Bugs
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George Offerman Jr. | ... |
Red
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Cooper
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Cy Kendall | ... |
Morgan
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Charles Trowbridge | ... |
Judge Clinton
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Spencer Charters | ... |
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Donald Briggs | ... |
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Deputy Commissioner of Correction Mark Braden finds a reform school in terrible condition and assumes control himself. He wins the boy's cooperation by being fair and falls in love with gang leader Frankie's sister Sue. This aides disgruntled employees in challenging Braden. Written by Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
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USALanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
28 May 1938 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
L'école du crime See more »Filming Locations:
Warner Brothers Burbank Studios - 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California, USACompany Credits
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Mark Braden: Maybe you got things just a little twisted, Morgan. This is a school you're running and not a prison. You're dealing with kids, not hardened criminals!
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(1909) (uncredited)
Music by Percy Wenrich
Lyrics by Stanley Murphy
Sung a cappella by the inmates in the shoe repair shop
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Milburn Stone is in studio records playing "Joe Delaney," but he does not appear in the film See more »Goofs
Spike's hair changes when he is telling Frankie about Mr. Braden and his sister. First it is falling in his face and the next shot it is all completely combed back then in the next shot it is falling in his face again. See more »Quotes
Morgan: Those guards you fired were valuable men. Whatta you want to replace them with? A crew of schoolteachers?Mark Braden: Maybe you got things just a little twisted, Morgan. This is a school you're running and not a prison. You're dealing with kids, not hardened criminals!
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Soundtracks
"Put on Your Old Grey Bonnet"(1909) (uncredited)
Music by Percy Wenrich
Lyrics by Stanley Murphy
Sung a cappella by the inmates in the shoe repair shop
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Warner Brothers decided to save a bundle on purchasing new properties for the Dead End Kids. The boys did They Made Me a Criminal a year later which was a remake of The Life of Jimmy Dolan and Crime School is a remake of The Mayor from Hell.
Fellow gangster icon James Cagney starred in The Mayor from Hell which I also reviewed here. Such things as Cagney's motivation and commitment to the reform school and the manner with which the boys take matters into their own hands is pretty grisly. None of that in this kinder, gentler film.
Sleepers has a lot of the same elements in both The Mayor from Hell and Crime School. It's certainly better than Crime School. This was one film whose message was watered down to nothing.
Nevertheless Crime School does have Humphrey Bogart in it and the Dead End Kids are always entertaining.
I wonder what kind of stuff the Dead End Kids would have been turning out had they come along pre-Code?