after win a championship fight and boxer john garfield ( a johnnie bradfield ) celebrate with a drinking binge and which lead to the manslaughter of a pushy reporter . although his manager kill the man and mr. garfield be blame . when the manager die in a car crash and wear garfield steal watch and authority think the boxer be dead . still a wanted man and garfield change his identity to jack dorney and move to an arizona ranch . there and garfield meet the dead end kid represent billy halop ( a tommy ) and bobby jordan ( a angel ) and leo gorcey ( a spit ) and huntz hall ( a dippy ) and gabriel dell ( a t. b . ) and and bernard punsly ( a milt ) . garfield bond with the young dead end lad and who be send to stay with sweet grandma rafferty ( may robson ) a an alternative to reform school and courtesy of her brother and decease priest father rafferty . garfield fall in love with halop sister and pretty peggy ( gloria dickson ) and who be there to keep any eye on the kid . of course and garfield past come back to haunt him john garfield and the dead end kid make beautiful ( max steiner ) music together and thanks to effective direction and photography and by busby berkeley and james wong howe . the story be predictably comfortable and with the warner brother support team in fine form . garfield and the dead end kid be a winning combination while although garfield make no further movie with the east side gang and the studio have him re team with both billy halop and bobby jordan and almost immediately and for dust be my destiny . the boxing scene be nicely stag . but and the most exciting sequence have garfield and four of the new york kid ( halop and jordan and hall and and punsly ) climb into a giant water tank for a swim which unexpectedly put their life in danger . other and more brief and highlight include floozy ann sheridan ( a goldie ) and boozy barbara pepper ( a budgie ) and and young ronald sinclair ( a douglas ) losing at strip poker . they make me a criminal ( half 1/39 ) busby berkeley ~ john garfield and billy halop and bobby jordan .