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* LegitimateBusinessMensSocialClub: Blackie tells Chuck they're a group of financiers.
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* SexyWalk: Chuck tries to teach Nora how to do one, but she is just too awkward.
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* PetTheDog: While the rest of the gang is attempting to peer pressure Spike stealing some furniture they can sell, Chuck, seeing how scared he is, tells him to just go home.
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* PetTheDog: While the rest of the gang is attempting to peer pressure Spike into baiting a rival gang into a fight, stealing some furniture they can sell, Chuck, seeing how scared he is, tells him to just go home.
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Boy of the Streets is a 1937 American drama film directed by William Nigh and written by Gilson Brown and Scott Darling. The film stars Creator/JackieCooper, Maureen O'Connor, Kathleen Burke, Robert Emmett O'Connor, Marjorie Main and Matty Fain. The film was released on December 8, 1937, by Monogram Pictures.
Chuck Brennan is a high school drop-out and the leader of a gang of boys. He adores his father, who he believes to be a high-up political advisor. He is good hearted, but hardened by the crime and poverty that surrounds him.
One day, his neighbour is taken away in an ambulance, leaving her daughter Nora all alone. Chuck doesn't want her to be taken to an orphanage, so he helps get her a job singing in a saloon. But, she is almost arrested when it is discovered she is only 16. Luckily, one cop, Officer Rourke, goes easy on the kids of the neighbourhood and cuts them a break.
Chuck soon discovers a group of Italian youths ratted Nora out, which starts a massive street brawl between the two gangs. As Chuck and another boy duke it out in the street, a truck comes barreling towards them. Spike, the youngest of the gang, who Chuck told not to get involved in the fight, pushes Chuck out of the way. He is hit by the truck and is killed.
After Spike's funeral, Chuck decides to go straight. He goes to his father's office to see if they will hire him, but discovers his father has been lying to him his entire life.
Later, while playing pool with his friend, he overhears mobster Blackie Davis threatening the pool hall owner into paying for protection, but doesn't understand what's going on. Thinking Davis is trying to cut the man in on more dough, he tells the man to take the deal. Davis realizes Chuck's mix of boldness and naivety would make him a good asset and offers to "go into business" with him.
Chuck, believing the men are really financiers, joins up with them despite his father's warnings. He unknowingly tells them how they can break into the local tailors, and they set it on fire since they wouldn't go in on their protection racket. While fleeing the scene, Officer Rourke chases after them. The mobsters shoot him and Chuck is shot trying to protect Rourke.
!!Tropes
*BlackDudeDiesFirst: Spike, the only black member of Chuck's gang, is killed while saving Chuck's life.
*BreakTheBadass: Chuck, a regular hoodlum, can't handle the hardened mafia lifestyle.
*BrokenPedestal: Chuck towards his father.
*ComingOfAgeStory
*CorruptTheCutie: Sort of. While Chuck isn't exactly a total innocent, he is a good kid who wants to do good by his community. Blackie Davis takes advantage of his insider knowledge and trusting nature, hoping to use the kid as a dumb informant on his friends.
*DawsonCasting: Inverted. Jackie Cooper was 15, playing a character just about to turn 17.
*TheDon: Blackie Davis.
*DoesNotLikeGuns: Chuck is appalled that the mobsters use guns, considering it unfair.
*DumbassTeenageSon: Chuck is street smart in many ways, but is also naive and uneducated.
*EmoTeen: Chuck.
*EvilParentsWantGoodKids: Chuck's parents don't want him to end up a criminal, like Chuck's father.
*FriendOnTheForce: Officer Rourke is this to Chuck.
*{{Gayngster}}: After Chuck agrees to keep his mouth shut about the money Blackie gave him, Blackie tells him "Good job, baby." and slaps him on the ass as he leaves.
*HighSchoolHustler: Chuck, when he fools the saloon into hiring Nora and passes himself off as her manager.
*HighSchoolRejects: Chuck and his boys.
*InnocentSoprano: Nora.
*KickTheDog: Right after Spike's funeral, Chuck's mother tells him his death was all his fault.
*LegitimateBusinessMensSocialClub: Blackie tells Chuck they're a group of financiers.
*LiarRevealed: Chuck discovers his father's lies when he goes to see him at his supposed-office.
*TheMafia: Chuck joins up with the mob.
*MafiaPrincess: Rusty, Blackie's girl.
*NobleShoplifter: The florist and his daughter actually leave a couple of flower arrangements out so that the boys can steal them for Spike's funeral.
*PetTheDog: While the rest of the gang is attempting to peer pressure Spike into baiting a rival gang into a fight, Chuck, seeing how scared he is, tells him to just go home.
*ProtectionRacket: What Blackie is trying to set up in Chuck's neighbourhood.
*PrankCall: The film opens with Chuck and the boys making a number of prank calls to the police. For example, telling them there is "a Murder in apartment 5." The tenant is a man with the last name Murder.
*PostersAlwaysLie: Well, YMMV on how true the claim that this is Jackie Cooper's greatest role is.
**ShoutOut: The poster references some of his previous roles; Film/{{Skippy}}, Film/TheBowery and Film/TheChamp
*RagsToRiches: Nora is taken in by a doctor and his girlfriend, the apartment landlord.
*SexyWalk: Chuck tries to teach Nora how to do one, but she is just too awkward.
*ShoeShineMister: Spike is a shoe-shiner.
*TakingTheBullet: Spike does this for Chuck, and later, Chuck does this for Rourke.
*TokenBlackFriend: Spike.
*TroubledTeen: As Rourke explains, they're good kids trying to survive in a cruel world.
*UncleTomfoolery: Spike, while not exactly a comic relief character, he does speak this way.
*UnconfessedUnemployment: Chuck's father.
*UrbanHellscape: The setting of the film.
Boy of the Streets is a 1937 American drama film directed by William Nigh and written by Gilson Brown and Scott Darling. The film stars Creator/JackieCooper, Maureen O'Connor, Kathleen Burke, Robert Emmett O'Connor, Marjorie Main and Matty Fain. The film was released on December 8, 1937, by Monogram Pictures.
Chuck Brennan is a high school drop-out and the leader of a gang of boys. He adores his father, who he believes to be a high-up political advisor. He is good hearted, but hardened by the crime and poverty that surrounds him.
One day, his neighbour is taken away in an ambulance, leaving her daughter Nora all alone. Chuck doesn't want her to be taken to an orphanage, so he helps get her a job singing in a saloon. But, she is almost arrested when it is discovered she is only 16. Luckily, one cop, Officer Rourke, goes easy on the kids of the neighbourhood and cuts them a break.
Chuck soon discovers a group of Italian youths ratted Nora out, which starts a massive street brawl between the two gangs. As Chuck and another boy duke it out in the street, a truck comes barreling towards them. Spike, the youngest of the gang, who Chuck told not to get involved in the fight, pushes Chuck out of the way. He is hit by the truck and is killed.
After Spike's funeral, Chuck decides to go straight. He goes to his father's office to see if they will hire him, but discovers his father has been lying to him his entire life.
Later, while playing pool with his friend, he overhears mobster Blackie Davis threatening the pool hall owner into paying for protection, but doesn't understand what's going on. Thinking Davis is trying to cut the man in on more dough, he tells the man to take the deal. Davis realizes Chuck's mix of boldness and naivety would make him a good asset and offers to "go into business" with him.
Chuck, believing the men are really financiers, joins up with them despite his father's warnings. He unknowingly tells them how they can break into the local tailors, and they set it on fire since they wouldn't go in on their protection racket. While fleeing the scene, Officer Rourke chases after them. The mobsters shoot him and Chuck is shot trying to protect Rourke.
!!Tropes
*BlackDudeDiesFirst: Spike, the only black member of Chuck's gang, is killed while saving Chuck's life.
*BreakTheBadass: Chuck, a regular hoodlum, can't handle the hardened mafia lifestyle.
*BrokenPedestal: Chuck towards his father.
*ComingOfAgeStory
*CorruptTheCutie: Sort of. While Chuck isn't exactly a total innocent, he is a good kid who wants to do good by his community. Blackie Davis takes advantage of his insider knowledge and trusting nature, hoping to use the kid as a dumb informant on his friends.
*DawsonCasting: Inverted. Jackie Cooper was 15, playing a character just about to turn 17.
*TheDon: Blackie Davis.
*DoesNotLikeGuns: Chuck is appalled that the mobsters use guns, considering it unfair.
*DumbassTeenageSon: Chuck is street smart in many ways, but is also naive and uneducated.
*EmoTeen: Chuck.
*EvilParentsWantGoodKids: Chuck's parents don't want him to end up a criminal, like Chuck's father.
*FriendOnTheForce: Officer Rourke is this to Chuck.
*{{Gayngster}}: After Chuck agrees to keep his mouth shut about the money Blackie gave him, Blackie tells him "Good job, baby." and slaps him on the ass as he leaves.
*HighSchoolHustler: Chuck, when he fools the saloon into hiring Nora and passes himself off as her manager.
*HighSchoolRejects: Chuck and his boys.
*InnocentSoprano: Nora.
*KickTheDog: Right after Spike's funeral, Chuck's mother tells him his death was all his fault.
*LegitimateBusinessMensSocialClub: Blackie tells Chuck they're a group of financiers.
*LiarRevealed: Chuck discovers his father's lies when he goes to see him at his supposed-office.
*TheMafia: Chuck joins up with the mob.
*MafiaPrincess: Rusty, Blackie's girl.
*NobleShoplifter: The florist and his daughter actually leave a couple of flower arrangements out so that the boys can steal them for Spike's funeral.
*PetTheDog: While the rest of the gang is attempting to peer pressure Spike into baiting a rival gang into a fight, Chuck, seeing how scared he is, tells him to just go home.
*ProtectionRacket: What Blackie is trying to set up in Chuck's neighbourhood.
*PrankCall: The film opens with Chuck and the boys making a number of prank calls to the police. For example, telling them there is "a Murder in apartment 5." The tenant is a man with the last name Murder.
*PostersAlwaysLie: Well, YMMV on how true the claim that this is Jackie Cooper's greatest role is.
**ShoutOut: The poster references some of his previous roles; Film/{{Skippy}}, Film/TheBowery and Film/TheChamp
*RagsToRiches: Nora is taken in by a doctor and his girlfriend, the apartment landlord.
*SexyWalk: Chuck tries to teach Nora how to do one, but she is just too awkward.
*ShoeShineMister: Spike is a shoe-shiner.
*TakingTheBullet: Spike does this for Chuck, and later, Chuck does this for Rourke.
*TokenBlackFriend: Spike.
*TroubledTeen: As Rourke explains, they're good kids trying to survive in a cruel world.
*UncleTomfoolery: Spike, while not exactly a comic relief character, he does speak this way.
*UnconfessedUnemployment: Chuck's father.
*UrbanHellscape: The setting of the film.
