L'école du crime

Original title: Crime School

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6.5/10

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Humphrey Bogart, Gabriel Dell, Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Billy Halop, Bobby Jordan, Gale Page, Bernard Punsly, and The Dead End Kids in L'école du crime (1938)

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A gang of underprivileged teenagers are sentenced to serve two years in a reform school after almost killing a criminal fence who attacked them.A gang of underprivileged teenagers are sentenced to serve two years in a reform school after almost killing a criminal fence who attacked them.A gang of underprivileged teenagers are sentenced to serve two years in a reform school after almost killing a criminal fence who attacked them.

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IMDb RATING

6.5/10

1.5K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 2 wins total

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Trivia
The boys at the reform school recite the Pledge of Allegiance without the phrase "under God." The phrase wasn't added to the Pledge by law until 1954.

Goofs
At 44:20 into the film, Mark Braden (Humphrey Bogart) is talking with Judge Clinton. Someone comes to the door and says that Miss Warren is there to see him. On the wall behind the secretary you can see the shadow of the boom mic.

Quotes
Bugs: [seeing Goofy in an ill-fitting suit] What are you all dressed up for?
Goofy: Me and Pops was over to see Mom. She's in the county jail.
Fats: Yeah? What for?
Goofy: Thirty days. Pop's goin' next 'cause he's gonna beat up Mama when she gts out.

Connections
Featured in Film Breaks: The Dead End Kids (1999)

Soundtracks
Put on Your Old Grey Bonnet
(1909) (uncredited)
Music by Percy Wenrich
Lyrics by Stanley Murphy
Sung a cappella by the inmates in the shoe repair shop

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5/10

Predictable vehicle for the Dead End Kids; watchable at the time

"Crime School" is clearly from the same mold as "San Quentin" and Cagney's "The Mayor of Hell."

It is a predictable vehicle for the Dead End Kids, in which Bogart played, in a dull, unemotional style, a deputy commissioner of correction who takes over the running of a reformatory housing the Kids when he finds the warden is a sadist

There is a threat to Bogart's plan when the Kids escape as part of the warden's calculated attempt to prove Bogart's regenerative prison policies are valueless, but the ruse fails as Bogart gets the boys back winning the solemn recognition of merit