Five members of a teen-age gang, including leader Jimmy Smith, are sent to the State Reformatory, presided over by the melodramatically callous Thompson. Soon, Patsy Gargan, a former gangster appointed Deputy Commissioner as a political favor, arrives complete with hip flask and blonde. Gargan falls for activist nurse Dorothy and, inspired by her, takes over the administration to run the place on radical principles. But Thompson, to conceal his years of graft, needs a quick way to discredit Gargan...

Starring:

Allen Jenkins, Arthur Byron, Dorothy Peterson, Dudley Digges, Edwin Maxwell, Frankie Darro, G Pat Collins, Harold Huber, James Cagney, John Marston, Madge Evans, Robert Barrat, Sheila Terry, William V Mong

Genre:

Crime, Drama, Romance