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Release Date: 30 July, 2002 Retail Price: $7.98 OUR Price: $7.98 You SAVE: $0.00! Cast: Complete Cast (11 total) |
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The boys are working on a farm. Here comes John Garfield.
This is the forth Dead End Kids film. (Dead End [1937], Crime School [1938], Angeles With Dirty Faces [1938]). A boxer (John Garfield) has a little party after his fight. In a apartment, Johnnie trys to swing a punch at a nosy reporter, but he is so drunk he misses and ends-up passed out in a chair. Another man hits the reporter over the head with a whiskey bottle. The reporter McGee ends up dead. Later, they decide to make Johnnie take the fall. Johnnie is innocently drunk-sleep. The bad man and woman try to make there getaway, but with the police catching them, they go off the road and instantly die. They think it is Johnnie who is dead. But one detective is on the hunt. Johnnie runs away and he comes across a farm where the delinquent Dead End Kids (Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Billy Halop, Bobby Jordan, Gabriel Dell, Bernard Punsly) have been sent to work. There he meets the boys who he trys to reform. Also a woman at the date farm, Peggy (Gloria Dickson), softens his heart too. Meanwhile a detective (Claude Rains) is close on the trail. This is a good film for Billy Halop, who practically steals the film. Great acting from Halop. Good performances by May Robson who played the Grandma on the farm. Filmed at Palm Desert, California. Great ending. Get a hankercheif. On this DVD version, Alpha Video only offers an "index" which is a chapter selection. Very good print of film.
John Garfield also appeared with Leo Gorcey (and Bernard Gorcey) in "Out of the Fog" (1941).
They Made Me a Criminal
Interesting, corny story of professional boxer John Garfield who takes it on the lam after being wrongly charged with murder. He starts in New York and ends up in Arizona. Hires on with a mother and daughter team who are also in charge of a number of juvenile delinquents, the Dead End Kids, who've been sent west to `reform.'
In the late 30s Warner Brothers was cycling most of its gangster stars (Bogart, Cagney, etc.) through the Dead End Kids mill with a fair amount of success. Garfield wasn't an established star yet, but he had the accent, the attitude, and could dance a convincing boxing scene.
THEY MADE ME A CRIMINAL is just all right, although fans of the Dead End Kids (none in this room) should probably enjoy it more than those who find them incredibly annoying. Garfield plays the innocent pug with ease and the story has us rooting for him throughout. The usually reliable Claude Rains is miscast as the tough talking, big city cop who stays hot on his trail. Ably directed by famed choreographer Busby Berkeley.
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