Directed by Archie Mayo, Michael Curtiz.
With James Cagney, Madge Evans, Arthur Byron, Allen Jenkins.
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…
