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Boys' Reformatory is a american film of genre Drama directed by Howard Bretherton released in USA on 1 may 1939 with Frankie Darro
Boys' Reformatory (1939)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 1 may 1939
Length 1h2
Directed by Howard Bretherton
OriginUSA
Themes Prison films
Rating54%
Boys' Reformatory is a 1939 American crime film directed by Howard Bretherton and produced by Lindsley Parsons for Monogram Pictures. The screenplay was written by Wellyn Totman and Ray Trampe after a story by Ray Trampe and Norman S. Hall.
The film is about Tommy Ryan (Frankie Darro), a good natured teenager who takes the rap for a burglary committed by his foster brother (Frank Coghlan, Jr.), and his life in to a boys' reformatory where a morally upright staff physician, Dr. Owens (Grant Withers), takes an interest in his welfare.
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Seventeen-year-old Tommy Ryan lives with Mrs. O‘Meara, a seamstress, and her teenage son Eddie. Tommy’s exact status is unclear; Mrs. O’Meara’s says he is a friend of her son Eddie and “stays here with us and a finer lad never trod the green earth.” Tommy works in a grocery store and more than pulls his weight around the O’Meara home, but his foster brother Eddie is unemployed and hanging around a pool hall with a gang of teenage thieves led by Mike Hearn, the pool hall owner.Actors
Frankie Darro
(Tommy Ryan)
Grant Withers
(Dr. Owens)
Lillian Elliott
(Mrs. O'Meara)
John St. Polis
(Superintendent Keene)
Ben Welden
(Mike Hearn)
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