They Shall Have Music

The future is bleak for a troubled boy from a broken home in the slums. He runs away when his step father breaks his violin, ending up sleeping in the basement of a music school for poor children.

• Archie MayoDirector
• John Howard LawsonScreenplay
• Irma von CubeScreenplay
• Alfred NewmanOriginal Music Composer

• Jascha HeifetzHimself
• Joel McCreaPeter McCarthy
• Andrea LeedsAnn Lawson
• Gene ReynoldsFrankie
• Walter BrennanProfessor Lawson
• Terry KilburnLimey
• Tommy KellyWillie
• Porter HallMr. Flower
• Walter TetleyRocks Mulligan
• Chuck StubbsFever
• Gale SherwoodBetty
• Alfred NewmanMusical Director