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This Day and Age (1933)
director of photography:
J. Peverell Marley
cast:
Charles Bickford, Richard Cromwell, Judith Allen, Bradley Page, Harry Green, Ben Alexander, Edward Nugent, Lester Arnold
rating:
NR
director:
Cecil B. DeMille
running time:
86 min.
writer:
Bartlett Cormack
synopsis
A modern-day tale of gangsterism and revenge. After a notorious mobster murders a Jewish tailor and is let off for the crime, a band of outraged high-school students turns into vigilante crusaders hell-bent on punishing the wrongdoers. Memorable pre-Code moment: the students torturing a gangster by dangling him over a pit filled with rats.
A modern-day tale of gangsterism and revenge. After a notorious mobster murders a Jewish tailor and is let off for the crime, a band of outraged high-school students turns into vigilante crusaders hell-bent on punishing the wrongdoers. Memorable pre-Code moment: the students torturing a gangster by dangling him over a pit filled with rats.
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