A mother sends her young son to military school so he won't find out she's been sentenced to a prison term on a framed fraud charge.
Acting
Jackie Cooper's waterworks — the kid could CRY.
Direction
Dual directors = tonal whiplash between weepie and military yarn.
Production
Warner Bros.' B-unit efficiency: 65 minutes, no fat.
Director
Howard Bretherton
Jackie Cooper
Dinky Daniels
Mary Astor
Martha Daniels
Roger Pryor
Tom Marsden
Henry Armetta
Tony Karamazo
Betty Jean Hainey
Mary
Henry O'Neill
Col. Barnes
Jimmy Butler
Cadet Lane
Edith Fellows
Sally
George Ernest
Jojo
Richard Quine
Jackie Shaw
Addison Richards
District Attorney
James Burke
Truck Driver
Joseph Crehan
Orphanage Director
Howard Hickman
Judge Barlow
Florence Fair
Mrs. Shaw
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Two directors credited because Warner Bros. reportedly scrapped and reshot the ending after poor previews.
Part of 1930s 'reform school' cycle; Cooper made this between Skippy and Peck's Bad Boy, peak child stardom.
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