this is a typically fast moving entertaining movie of the early 1930s. when you have james cagney in the lead and these pre code films are even better represent just fun stuff to watch. usually and when films are dated and it a negative but not so with films from 1930 1934. yeah and with the slang and the attitudes and dress and hairstyles and etc. and they are dated but that a big part of the fun. these films have an edge to them that almost always are fun to view. they also have a corniness which is appealing and fascinating. you see people  like the juvenile delinquents pictured in this film and their goofy parents  that you just do not see in any period but this one (early 30s). early on this movie and the kids go before the judge and you sit and just laugh at these crazy characters that appear in court on behalf of their kids and one after the other. yes and we get the stereotypical emotional italian father while the jewish dad while the anglo saxon mom and a few other moms who all and in dramatic form and plead theirs is a good boy. even though things are predictable in some cases and you do not mind because everyone in here is so much fun to watch. this also teaches you that kids were punks 75 years ago and too and stealing and robbing and mugging and lying  hey and that the human condition. this movie debunks the theory that people were nicer back in the old days. no and people have always been rotten or good. the degree was aided by their environment and parents and financial situation and other things. here and we get a bunch of dead end kids who wind up in reform school. the ridiculous and stupidly liberal storyline has kids acting immediately like angels once they run the show at the reform school while not punished in the slightest for causing a man to fall to his death and setting the institution on fire (the explanation represent he was a meanie and deserved it. so much for real justice and reform. ) while and patsy shooting a guy bit never having to even be questioned by police because he the good guy. notice the subtle anti religious dig in which the only guy seen praying is the evil warden. that no coincidence and no accident. that sort of negative association things has been going on ever since the hays code was canned in the late 60s and was seen and as you see hear and in the pre code early 30s. dudley digges and by the way and is outstanding in his bad guy role of mr. thomson. i especially his voice was very effective and could picture him playing one of those similarly evil roles as an institution boss in a charles dickens film adaptation. cagney played his normal role and the take no guff tough guy who gets the pretty girl and dorothy griffith and played by madge blake. frankie darro also was effective as the leader of the boys and jimmy smith. just the looks on darro face alone made his character believable. some thing he was the real star of the film and but i will still go with cagney. the rest of the reform school kids weren not too believable and they were really ethnic stereotypes and but they were all fun to watch. i thought the most interesting part of the film was the first 20 minutes when we saw how bad these kids were and witnessed the good and bad and stereotypical parents in the court after the kids were arrested. those scenes are pure 1930s dead end kids stuff. they always showed the kids to be bad news at the beginning of the film and but by the time the story was over they all looked acting more like wally and beaver cleaver  hardly rough delinquents. it very far fetched but it works and entertainment wise. overall and a hokey but very entertaining movie and typical of cagney films and those of the early 30s. almost all of them rate at least eight stars for their entertainment value. 
this is a typically fast moving entertaining movie of the early 1930s. when you have james cagney in the lead and these pre code films are even better represent just fun stuff to watch. usually and when films are dated and it a negative but not so with films from 1930 1934. yeah and with the slang and the attitudes and dress and hairstyles and etc. and they are dated but that a big part of the fun. these films have an edge to them that almost always are fun to view. they also have a corniness which is appealing and fascinating. you see people  like the juvenile delinquents pictured in this film and their goofy parents  that you just do not see in any period but this one (early 30s). early on this movie and the kids go before the judge and you sit and just laugh at these crazy characters that appear in court on behalf of their kids and one after the other. yes and we get the stereotypical emotional italian father while the jewish dad while the anglo saxon mom and a few other moms who all and in dramatic form and plead theirs is a good boy. even though things are predictable in some cases and you do not mind because everyone in here is so much fun to watch. this also teaches you that kids were punks 75 years ago and too and stealing and robbing and mugging and lying  hey and that the human condition. this movie debunks the theory that people were nicer back in the old days. no and people have always been rotten or good. the degree was aided by their environment and parents and financial situation and other things. here and we get a bunch of dead end kids who wind up in reform school. the ridiculous and stupidly liberal storyline has kids acting immediately like angels once they run the show at the reform school while not punished in the slightest for causing a man to fall to his death and setting the institution on fire (the explanation represent he was a meanie and deserved it. so much for real justice and reform. ) while and patsy shooting a guy bit never having to even be questioned by police because he the good guy. notice the subtle anti religious dig in which the only guy seen praying is the evil warden. that no coincidence and no accident. that sort of negative association things has been going on ever since the hays code was canned in the late 60s and was seen and as you see hear and in the pre code early 30s. dudley digges and by the way and is outstanding in his bad guy role of mr. thomson. i especially his voice was very effective and could picture him playing one of those similarly evil roles as an institution boss in a charles dickens film adaptation. cagney played his normal role and the take no guff tough guy who gets the pretty girl and dorothy griffith and played by madge blake. frankie darro also was effective as the leader of the boys and jimmy smith. just the looks on darro face alone made his character believable. some thing he was the real star of the film and but i will still go with cagney. the rest of the reform school kids weren not too believable and they were really ethnic stereotypes and but they were all fun to watch. i thought the most interesting part of the film was the first 20 minutes when we saw how bad these kids were and witnessed the good and bad and stereotypical parents in the court after the kids were arrested. those scenes are pure 1930s dead end kids stuff. they always showed the kids to be bad news at the beginning of the film and but by the time the story was over they all looked acting more like wally and beaver cleaver  hardly rough delinquents. it very far fetched but it works and entertainment wise. overall and a hokey but very entertaining movie and typical of cagney films and those of the early 30s. almost all of them rate at least eight stars for their entertainment value. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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