"How can you tell them to be good when their girl friends like them better when they're bad!..."
A social worker tries to end juvenile crime by getting involved with a street gang.
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The people behind it
James Whitmore
Ben Wagner
Sal Mineo
Angelo 'Baby' Gioia
John Cassavetes
Frankie Dane
Mark Rydell
Lou Macklin
Virginia Gregg
Mrs. Dane
Peter J. Votrian
Richie Dane (as Peter Votrian)
Will Kuluva
Mr. Gioia
Malcolm Atterbury
Mr. McAllister
Denise Alexander
Maria Gioia
Dan Terranova
Blockbuster
A juvenile court judge goes out of her way to try to aid a young man whom she believes has innocently gotten involved with a gang.
Members of a teenage gang are sent to the State Reformatory, presided over by the callous Thompson. Soon Patsy Gargan, a former gangster appointed Deputy Commissioner, arrives and takes over the administration to run the place on radical principles. Thompson needs a quick way to discredit him.
A nasty schoolgirl does what she pleases, under the protection of her father, who is the school principal. Another girl is not so nasty, but she is determined and tough enough to contest the girl's gang in a democratic vote - and win. That causes her trouble in school, just when her own father, who owns a truck transport company, is murdered in a fake car accident by an American mobster. Before the girl can react, her naive mother has signed over the company to the mobster, and accepted him as her lover. Repentant, the mother starts drinking, and the good schoolgirl ties up with a halfbreed young man, who also has a grudge against Americans. He starts spying on the gangsters, discovers they are dealing in drugs, but is killed before he can report it. The good girl will lead her team in a desperation assault on the mobsters - and the police will eventually arrive just in time for the showdown.
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