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.

• Warner Bros. Pictures
• James Cagney
• Madge Evans
• Frankie Darro
• Dudley Digges
• Arthur Byron
• Allen Jenkins
• Sheila Terry
• Robert Barrat