''Boys' Reformatory'' is a 1939 American
crime film
Crime film is a film belonging to the crime fiction genre. Films of this genre generally involve various aspects of crime and fiction. Stylistically, the genre may overlap and combine with many other genres, such as Drama (film and television), dr ...
directed by Howard Bretherton and produced by Lindsley Parsons for Monogram Pictures. The screenplay was written by Wellyn Totman and Ray Trampe based on a story by Ray Trampe and Norman S. Hall.
Plot
Cast
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Frankie Darro as Tommy Ryan
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Lillian Elliott as Mrs. O'Meara
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Frank Coghlan, Jr. as Eddie O'Meara
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Ben Welden
Ben Welden (born Benjamin Weinblatt; June 12, 1901 – October 17, 1997) was an American character actor who played a wide variety of Damon Runyon-type gangsters in various movies and television shows.
Early years
Welden was born in Toledo, Oh ...
as Mike Hearn
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David Durand as 'Knuckles' Malone
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William P. Carleton as Superior Judge Robert A. Scott
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Grant Withers as Dr. Owens, a physician at the State Industrial School
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John St. Polis as Superintendent Keene of the State Industrial School
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Pat Flaherty as Barnes, a guard at the State Industrial School
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George Offerman, Jr. as Joey, an inmate at the State Industrial School
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{{Howard Bretherton
1939 crime drama films
1930s teen drama films
1939 films
American black-and-white films
American crime drama films
American prison drama films
Monogram Pictures films
Films directed by Howard Bretherton
1930s prison films
1930s American films
1930s English-language films
English-language crime drama films