Boys of the City (1940): Cast & Plot

To escape the heat of the city and a looming court sentence for malicious mischief, the East Side kids head for a summer camp in the Adirondacks. En route, their car breaks down and they are reluctantly taken in at Judge Malcolm Parker, Forrest Taylor. The Judge is under indictment for bribery, and both his life—and that of his niece Louise Mason, Inna Gest—are threatened by a ruthless gang of racketeers; his ally Giles, Dennis Moore has accused him of embezzling Louise’s fortune, while Agnes, Minerva Urecal the housekeeper, blames Parker for the death of her former mistress, Leonora. Parker’s worries multiply when he meets Knuckles Dolan, the boys’ guardian, Dave O’Brien a man Parker once sentenced to death before that verdict was reversed and Knuckles exonerated.