ON SATURDAY: "BOY OF THE STREETS"
From out of the depth of a great city rises a stirring, triumphant story of youth and honour and of a boy's fight to find himself. It is Monogram's splendid "Boy of the Streets," which comes to the Leeston Theatre on Saturday, and its star is Jackie Cooper, whose moving characterisation of Chuck, the tenement "big shot," definitely establishes him as an adult star.
It is a story of the children who grow up in the sombre shadows of the tenements. The camera focuses on Chuck, leader of a gang of young hoodlums, catching him at the sen-
sitive adolescent age when he is first forced to decide what is right and what is wrong. Chuck's only ambition is to be a "big shot' like his father and when he suffers youth's greatest disillusionment—the discovery that his parent is a four-flusher and a fake—he attaches himself to Blackie, a public enemy, sinister symbol of the power Chuck means one day to possess. But a greater disillusionment, the discovery that gangster methods are cowardly, teaches Chuck the meaning of words like honour, courage, and success, and points the way to discipline and decent citizenship.
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Ellesmere Guardian, Volume LX, Issue 24, 28 March 1939, Page 7
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