STATE THEATRE, PETONE
Beginning a season at tha Stale Theatre, Petone, today, “Crime School” might be described as an opening up of a “dead end,’’ in which youths grow into thugs and murderers, crushed by their environment and needing to fight for everything they get. In this film youths are encouraged by a modern Fagin to steal everything that presents itself to the eye, and then are refused what they consider to be adequate payment for what they take. They revolt against this and the revolt ends witli their committal to a “crime” (reform) school. Their adventures there under a harsh administration which results in the production of confirmed criminals on a large scale, and the efforts of a humane criminologist (Humphrey Bogart) to alter the situation, thus winning the confidence of the boys and giving them some idea of responsibility for making an effort for themselves, forms the theme of the film. A feature of “Crime School” is the reappearance of the boys who played in “‘Dead End.”
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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 154, 25 March 1939, Page 16
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169STATE THEATRE, PETONE Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 154, 25 March 1939, Page 16
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