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"She's got her hands full of TROUBLE adopting this dirty-faced "angel"."
After a socially conscience reporter adopts a slum orphan after she causes his brother's gang to go to prison.
"She's got her hands full of TROUBLE adopting this dirty-faced "angel"."
After a socially conscience reporter adopts a slum orphan after she causes his brother's gang to go to prison.
Pat O'Brien
Thomas "Breezy" Elliott
Joan Blondell
Jane Morgan
Bobby Jordan
Mickey Fallon
Alan Baxter
Joe Fallon
William B. Davidson
Scotty
Morgan Conway
Lou Baronette
Clay Clement
Jaeggers
Selmer Jackson
Detective Mendall
Addison Richards
Brand
After a socially conscience reporter adopts a slum orphan after she causes his brother's gang to go to prison.
Desmond Doyle is devastated when his wife abandons their family on the day after Christmas. His unemployment, and the fact that there is no woman in the house to care for the children—Evelyn, Dermot and Maurice—make it clear to the authorities this is an untenable situation. The Catholic Church and the Irish courts decide to put the Doyle children into Church-run orphanages.
Three juvenile delinquents arrive at a correctional center and are put under the care of an experienced guard.
Childhood chums Rocky Sullivan and Jerry Connelly grow up on opposite sides of the fence: Rocky matures into a prominent gangster, while Jerry becomes a priest, tending to the needs of his old tenement neighborhood.
A woman searches for her adult son, who was taken away from her decades ago when she was forced to live in a convent.
15-year-old Rocks fears that she and her little brother Emmanuel will be taken into care and forced apart if anyone finds out that their mother has left them. Against all odds, and with the help of her loyal friends, she evades the authorities and navigates the most defining days of her young life.
The lives of a young man and woman, an infamous gangster and a group of street kids converge one day in a volatile New York City slum.
A World War I veteran’s dreams of becoming a master architect evaporate in the cold light of economic realities. Things get even worse when he’s falsely convicted of a crime and sent to work on a chain gang.
An attorney defends a hoodlum of murder, using the oppressiveness of the slums to appeal to the court.
Brash hoodlum Tom Connors enters Sing Sing cocksure of himself and disrespectful toward authority, but his tough but compassionate warden changes him.
A retelling of L.M. Montgomery's story of Anne Shirley, an orphan who is accidentally sent to a couple looking to adopt a boy instead.