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Racketeer Patsy Gargan is made deputy
commissioner of a reform school as a reward from his corrupt political
cronies. Initially, he has no interest in the school, but his sympathy
for the boys, who grew up in the slums as he did, and his attraction to the
resident nurse, Dorothy Griffith, convince him to take the job seriously.
He sends Thompson, the superintendent, on
vacation and, while he is gone, implements Dorothy's ideas for reform.
The school is functioning well under a system of self-government when Patsy
is called back to the city to take care of some political business.
Patsy shoots another man during a fight and has to go into hiding.
Thompson returns to the school and convinces the
boys that Patsy has abandoned them. He then starts running things the
old way and, when Dorothy protests, he fires her. Then one of the
boys, Johnny Stone, dies while in solitary confinement and the boys rebel.
Dorothy finds Patsy in his hideout and tells him the whole story.
Patsy races back to the school to restore order, having decided to give up
his political job to run the school permanently. |
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