In the slums, teenager Frankie Warren hangs out with a rowdy gang who one day knock him out in a fight. In court, the boys refuse to reveal who struck the knockout blow, and all are subsequently sentenced to a reformatory, cruelly run by two corrupt guards. New deputy commissioner Mark Braden arrives determined to change things, but despite the help of Frankie's sister, Mark's reform plans -- and Frankie's future -- may be sabotaged from within.
Five hapless inner-city low-lifes attempt to burgle a pawnbroker's safe, but end up being plagued by...
A tough street kid attempts to rob a post office and is caught. In order to avoid reform school, he ...
A lawman tries to find the source of a juvenile delinquent's bad behavior.
Fourteen-year-old drug dealer Johnny is in a home for young people. When he learns that he cannot go...
The world of Salvador, a young and naive petty thief is changed by the arrival of his cousin Angel, ...
The 'Dead End Kids & Little Tough Guys' are working as collectors for a finance company, when th...
A gang of tough street kids decide to go straight and get jobs in order to free draft-age men for th...
A day in the life of a barbershop on the south side of Chicago. Calvin, who inherited the struggling...
Mazie, a poor orphan girl, is mistreated by cruel farmer Slag and his wife for whom she works. Mazie...
Dead End Kids epic. The boys want desperately to fly, and get mixed up with crooked crop dusters, wh...
Following the arrest of her mother, Ramona, young Vanessa Lutz decides to go in search of her estran...
After a socially conscience reporter adopts a slum orphan after she causes his brother's gang to go ...
A withdrawn young man, Leland Fitzgerald is imprisoned for the murder of a mentally disabled boy, wh...
A wealthy Los Angeles teen and her superficial friends wants to break out of suburbia and experience...
Reform school teacher tries to carry his class to the right path by teaching them diving.
Childhood chums Rocky Sullivan and Jerry Connelly grow up on opposite sides of the fence: Rocky matu...
Educator and those educated in a home for juvenile delinquents in the same test: approach, take a pe...
A week in the life of the exploited, child newspaper sellers in turn-of-the-century New York. When t...