The read
It runs a compact 59m.
Synopsis
Steve Bell, Tommy, Pig, Ape, and String are run of town. Steve, while hopping a freight card and trying to avoid the brakeman, is killed. The boys meet Steve's mother, Alice Bell and Tommy is given a job in the storage garage which she owns jointly with Mack Steward. Steve's brother Don Bell is working with some gangsters by tipping them off on valuable merchandise that can be hijacked. Pig, Ape and String overhear Don's plans to use Tommy as the fall guy in the next hijacking.
Ratings
IMDb6.6/10
2 audience votes
Key crew
- Lewis AmsterScreenplay
- Brenda WeisbergScreenplay
- Ray TaylorDirector
- Harold TarshisScreenplay
- Henry SucherScreenplay
- Frank SkinnerOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Billy HalopTommy Davis
- Huntz HallPig
- Grace McDonaldNorene Steward
- Bernard PunslyApe
- Gabriel DellString
- Edward NorrisClinker
- Virginia BrissacMrs. Bell
- Tommy KellySteve
- Dick HoganDon Bell
- Jed ProutyMack Steward
- Murray AlperShorty
- Paul FixMarco
Stills
Themes
dead end kidsdeath of brotherracketeerlittle tough guys