Crime School
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| 'Crime School' | |
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 Crime School Theatrical Poster |
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| Directed by | Lewis Seiler |
| Produced by | Bryan Foy |
| Written by | Crane Wilbur Vincent Sherman |
| Starring | Humphrey Bogart Leo Gorcey Billy Halop Huntz Hall Bernard Punsly Bobby Jordan Gabriel Dell |
| Music by | Max Steiner |
| Cinematography | Arthur Todd |
| Editing by | Terry Morse |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
| Release date(s) | May 28, 1938 (U.S.) |
| Running time | 86 min. |
| Language | English |
| Preceded by | Dead End (1937) |
| Followed by | Angels with Dirty Faces (1938) |
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Crime School is a 1938 film starring Humphrey Bogart and The Dead End Kids.
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[edit] Plot
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 stuck the damaging blow, they are all sent to reform school.
The superintendent of the state refomatories, Mark Braden (Humphrey Bogart), visits the school and find that it is being mismanaged. He fires all of the ex-convict guards, except Cooper (Weldon Heyburn), as a way of starting over. Morgan (Cy Kendall) is made warden and attempts to parole the kids, as well as romancing Sue Warren (Gale Page), Frankie's sister.
Meanwhile, Cooper is afraid that Braden will find out of Morgan's illegal use of the food budget, which would implicate him as well. He learns that Spile is the one who dealt the final blow to the junkman and blackmails him. He gets him to tell Frankie that Sue is being forced by Braden into paying for the special treatment that they have received. Although untrue, it causes the kids to escape the school.
They confront Braden once outside and discover the truth. Morgan calls the police as a ruse to get them to discover that the kids have escaped. Once they are back at the school, and the police arrive, Braden delivers evidence about Morgan, who is arrested.
[edit] Trivia
- As this was a Warner Bros. film and not a United Artists' film like Dead End, they advertised the kids as 'The Crime School Kids' in this film, and their next, Angels with Dirty Faces. However, the name did not catch on and they remained 'The Dead End Kids'.[1]
- Before the film was released, Halop, Dell, Hall, and Punsly were released from their contracts by Warner Brothers and they went on to make a film at Universal, Little Tough Guy. The success of this film caused Warner to reconsider and they were rehired at a substantial raise.[2]
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[edit] External link
| The Dead End Kids |
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| Dead End • Crime School • Angels with Dirty Faces • They Made Me a Criminal • Hell's Kitchen • The Angels Wash Their Faces • On Dress Parade |
