REFORMATORY Danish '39

Reformatory, the 1938 Lewis D. Collins juvenile delinquency detention center crime prison jail melodrama ("Will these boys behind bars today be killers behind guns tomrorow?"; "America's kid convicts run amuck!"; apparently, this was a Columbia Studios attempt to cash in on the then-red-hot "Dead End Kids" movies, and perhaps they had plans to launch their own series, but I don't know about that; if anyone knows more about this movie, please e-mail us and we will post it here) starring Jack Holt, Bobby Jordan (best remembered as one of the original Dead End Kids; "Star of 'Crime School'"), Charlotte Wynters, Grant Mitchell, Frankie Darro (Darro started in 1924 as a 7 year-old child actor, and was immediately in much demand; after 13 movies, he was paired with Tom Tyler in "Let's Go Gallagher", and they were soon a regular team, appearing in 23 movies over the next 4 years; unlike most child stars of the time, his career was not derailed by his entering adolescence, and he continued to play minor roles, often the leading man as a teen, over the next 12 years; he served in World War II, and then returned to movies, appearing in a total of 173 movies, last acting in 1975, the year before he passed away!; note that in the Tom Tyler movies, he was often billed as "Frankie Darro and His Pals"!), Ward Bond, and Tommy Bupp
Important Added Info: Note that this poster was folded at one time but has been laying flat for a long time and will be sent rolled in a tube.
Overall Condition: good. There is tattering and tiny paper loss along the foldlines and edges of the poster.