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Newsboys' Home is a american film of genre Drama directed by Arthur Lubin released in USA on 24 december 1938 with Jackie Cooper
Newsboys' Home (1938)
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Add to a movie listNewsboys' Home is a 1938 Universal Studios film that starred Jackie Cooper and The Little Tough Guys.
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When his father, a small town sheriff, is slain by a big city gangster, "Rifle" Edwards (Jackie Cooper) becomes a homeless vagabond, drifting from town to town. Arriving broke and hungry in a large metropolis, he seeks food and shelter at the Newsboys' Home, where the kids force him to fight an amateur bout with the champ, Danny Shay (Elisha Cook, Jr.), before he can eat. When Rifle knocks Danny out, the country boy is accepted into the gang of newsies. He goes to work selling the Globe, which is published by Howard Price Dutton (Samuel S. Hinds), the founder and benefactor of the home. When Dutton dies, his daughter Gwen (Wendy Barrie) becomes the new publisher. Globe reporter Perry Warner (Edmund Lowe) is in love with Gwen, but they quarrel over her ideas about turning the Globe into a highbrow paper. Perry warns Gwen that she will ruin the paper, but she is stubborn and refuses to listen.Actors
Jackie Cooper
(Rifle Edwards)
Edward Norris
(Frankie Barber)
David Gorcey
(Yap)
William Benedict
(Trouble)
Edmund Lowe
(Perry Warner)
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