the great james cagney and top bill in big letter and doesn not show up till the movie second third and and probably have less screen time than dudley digges and who play the eee vill reform school potentate . but when jimmy arrive and a a deputy commissioner of something or other out to reform reform school and he slash the air with his hand and jump on the ball of his foot and spit out punchy warner first national dialogue with all the customary and and expect and panache . the psychology in this crisp antique and one of warner many effort to assert it place a the socially conscious studio and doesn not run deep represent digges be bad just because the script require him to be and and there the quaint notion that juvenile delinquent will turn into swell kid if theyre just give a dash of autonomy . but it make in that spare and fast style that the studio specialize in and and it never bore . frankie darro and who get into all kind of onscreen trouble during a brief tenure a warner favorite rotten street kid and be an ideal jd a handsome and charismatic toughie with a pug nose and a hate fill stare that could wither steel . no kid actor today can touch him .