Crime School is a 1938 Warner Bros. film directed by Lewis Seiler and starring the Dead End Kids and Humphrey Bogart.
A junkman is attacked by the Dead End Kids (Frankie (Billy Halop), Squirt (Bobby Jordan), Spike (Leo Gorcey), Goofy (Huntz Hall), Fats (Bernard Punsly), and Bugs (Gabriel Dell) and suffers a concussion. When the court cannot convince them to admit which one struck the damaging blow, they are all sent to reform school.
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Crime School is a 1938 Warner Bros. film directed by Lewis Seiler and starring the Dead End Kids and Humphrey Bogart.
A junkman is attacked by the Dead End Kids (Frankie (Billy Halop), Squirt (Bobby Jordan), Spike (Leo Gorcey), Goofy (Huntz Hall), Fats (Bernard Punsly), and Bugs (Gabriel Dell) and suffers a concussion. When the court cannot convince them to admit which one struck the damaging blow, they are all sent to reform school.
The superintendent of the state reformatories, Mark Braden (Humphrey Bogart), visits the school and finds that it is being mismanaged. He fires four ex-convict guards, while retaining the head guard Cooper (Weldon Heyburn), as a way of starting over. Morgan (Cy Kendall), the cruel warden, is also fired. Braden runs the school himself and attempts to parole the kids, as well as romancing Sue Warren (Gale Page), Frankie's sister.
Meanwhile, Cooper is afraid that Braden will learn of Morgan's illegal use of the food budget, which would implicate himself as...
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