Little Tough Guy (1938)
1938 · Feature film · 83 min · dir. Harold Young
HERE AGAIN...TO JOLT YOU FROM YOUR SEATS!
- Crime
- Drama
Synopsis
The son of a man sentenced to death for a murder he didn't commit vows to become a criminal himself. He starts his own street gang, and their crime spree is financed by a mysterious young man--who turns out to be the son of the District Attorney who sent the boy's father to the electric chair.
Synopsis from TMDb
Details
- Director
- Harold Young
- Writer
- Gilson Brown
- Studio
- Universal Pictures
- Released
- 1938-07-22
- Running time
- 83 minutes
Cast & crew
- Harold Young Director
Robert Wilcox
Helen Parrish
Marjorie Main
Jackie Searl
Peggy Stewart
Helen MacKellar
Edward Pawley
Olin Howland
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★ · Sad story and well acted · Dr Feel Rotten · 2011-01-22
Johnny's dad goes to prison and is sentences to death ruining the families hopes..These kids had nothing and when the rich bored kid wants to play they become young gangsters till rich kid squeals.. Sadly today most kids are sent straight off to prison with the thugs when they get in the same kind of trouble with relatively no rehabilitation, just harshness.Lock em up and throw away the kids life like garbage.. Out of sight, out of mind, but they do eventually get free and become even more bitter and society has forgotten that.
★★★ · Not such a bad film. · unclepup · 2012-05-20
This was better than I expected but still a sad waste of the talents of Miss Parrish. Depending on which date of birth you accept, she was 14, 15, or 16 years of age when this was filmed. Since she seemed to have her full growth I will assume 16. That said, she did a great job and appeared to be fully adult. Why Universal Studios could not find better roles for her is a mystery. She was beautiful, had a perfect figure, and could act. Apparently that was not enough.
