Crime School Free
- Genres: Crime, Drama
- Rating IMDb: 66
- Year: 1938
- Duration: 1:25
Summaries
A gang of underprivileged teenagers are sentenced to serve two years in a reform school after almost killing a criminal fence who attacked them.
Deputy Commissioner of Correction Mark Braden finds a reform school in terrible condition and assumes control himself. He wins the boy's cooperation by being fair and falls in love with gang leader Frankie's sister Sue. This aides disgruntled employees in challenging Braden.
Frankie Warren is the hard-nosed leader of an inner-city gang of teenage toughs that play hooky while engaging in shoplifting and petty theft. Frankie's sister Sue unsuccessfully struggles to right her kid brother but becomes embittered when the gang almost kills their pawnbroker fence after he cheats them and attacks Frankie. They are sentenced to two years in a "reform school," actually a repressive Dickensian prison run by corrupt, cruel officials who embezzle the funds designated to help rehabilitate their charges. Fortunately for the boys, crusading reformer Mark Braden has been appointed to reform the dysfunctional institution, but Frankie and his friends are suspicious of his motives.