They Made Me a Criminal

(1939)

91 minutes

Drama / Mystery

Directed by Busby Berkeley

Cast: The Dead End Kids

John Garfield as Johnny Bradfield
Gloria Dickson as Peggy
Claude Rains as Detective Monty Phelan
Ann Sheridan as Goldie West
May Robson as Grandma Rafferty
Billy Halop as Tommy
Bobby Jordan as Angel
Leo Gorcey as Spit
Gabriel Dell as T.B.
Huntz Hall as Dippy
Bernard Punsly as Milt 
Ward Bond as Lenihan
William B. Davidson as the Sheriff

Johnnie is a boxer. The same evening he won the world championship, he is charged for the murder of a reporter and is taken for dead. Running away from New York, he ends up in a ranch in Arizona , run by an old lady as a work farm for delinquent teenagers. He falls in love with Peggy and became the teenagers' hero. But there is that New York Detective, Phelan, that does not believe he is dead and is chasing him.