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Boy in Court

  • 1940
  • 10m
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4.1/10
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Boy in Court (1940)
CrimeDramaShort

Johnny is a troubled 15-year-old who falls in with a bad crowd, steals a car and gets caught by the police. However, instead of sending Johnny to reform school, the judge takes an interest i... Read allJohnny is a troubled 15-year-old who falls in with a bad crowd, steals a car and gets caught by the police. However, instead of sending Johnny to reform school, the judge takes an interest in him and assigns a probation officer to try to steer Johnny away from a life of crime.Johnny is a troubled 15-year-old who falls in with a bad crowd, steals a car and gets caught by the police. However, instead of sending Johnny to reform school, the judge takes an interest in him and assigns a probation officer to try to steer Johnny away from a life of crime.

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    • David H. Lion
  • Star
    • Niles Welch
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    4.1/10
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    • Director
      • David H. Lion
    • Star
      • Niles Welch
    • 2User reviews
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    4boblipton

    Optimistic

    Johnny and his gang steal a car. After about three seconds they crash, and then Johnny is picked up by the cops. But he isn't beaten to a rag, or sent to reform school/junior prison. Instead, the judge assigns him to a probation officer, a man who visits Johnny's neighborhood and sets the kid on the straight-and-narrow by teaching him to build model airplanes.

    That's a brusk and unkind way of describing this well-meaning short subject. It was produced to promote a more humane way of rehabilitating young offenders. I'm sure it had its successes. But it also had a lot of failures.
    Kirpianuscus

    Johnny story

    A nice perspective about attitude of American justice about juvenile crime. The rehabilitation as main interest . A probation agent as a sort of surogate father, a wise judge, the integration in family and the discover of interest who change the young deliquent in a good man.

    Not different by many short educational films of period but answering to old and permanent questions about young people attitude, single mothers and their fragile autorithy and the way to integrate in society, as exemplary citizen, of a teenager.

    Idealistic ? In some measure, off course. But more suignificant , useful for suggest a fair solution in a delicate case.

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      Edited into Teenage Turmoil Vol. 10 (2007)

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      • United States
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      • English
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      • Willard Pictures
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