Code of the Streets (1939) DVD-R

Starring Harry Carey, Frankie Thomas, James McCallion, Juanita Quigley,
El Brendel, Leon Ames
Directed by Harold Young

Print: black/white
Runtime: 72 min.
Genre: drama
Print Quality: B

Hoodlum Tommy Shay is sentenced to die for the murder of Police
Lieutenant Carson, although Tommy was in a poker game at the time with
a man calling himself "Denver" Collins. Collins has disappeared, and
perjured evidence leads to Tommy's conviction. Tommy's younger brother
Danny and his gang of alley kids,"The Little Tough Guys"--- "Sailor",
"Murphy", "Monk", "Trouble" and "Yap"---scheme to save Tommy from
the electric chair. Police Lieutenant John Lewis, who arrested Tommy,
believes he is innocent and goes to the District Attorney and tries so
insistently to have the case reopened that he is demoted to a patrolman
in the sticks. Bob Lewis, John's son, a radio bug with detective ambitions,
starts out on his own to solve the crime and help his father. Searching for
Collins, Bob meets Danny and the Little Tough Guys and they join forces.
Acting on a tip, they go to the gambling club owned by Chick Foster s)and
tell him the police have reopened the Carson case and suspect him of
being implicated. There, they see a man named Halstead whom they
believe to be the missing "Denver" Collins. And with the aid of a phony
telegram and a dicta-phone planted by Bob, The Little Tough Guys begin
to bring law and order to the Gotham streets.