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Boy Slaves: Directed by P.J. Wolfson. With Anne Shirley, Roger Daniel, James McCallion, Alan Baxter. A runaway follows the leader of a gang of boys, and they all wind up working in a turpentine camp.
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- Action, Adventure, Crime
- P.J. Wolfson
- 1939-02-02
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Boy Slaves is a 1939 drama film starring Roger Daniel and Anne Shirley. The film was directed by P.J. Wolfson and based upon an Albert Bein story. Boy Slaves is an exposé of child labor.
Boy Slaves 1939 Part One. This film was made by RKO, one of the big studios during the Golden Age of Hollywood. It tells the horrific life of juvenile delinquents in the Bible Belt, where...
- 15 min
- 1498
- Brian O'Hara
Set during the Depression, a young boy named Jesse (Roger Daniel) runs away from home so that he can try and earn money for his struggling mother. He winds up with a gang of boys led by Tim (James McCallion) who are quick to beat him up, take what money he does have and force him to join their crooked ways.
- P.J. Wolfson
- RKO Radio Pictures
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When they commit a petty offense, the judge turns the boys over to businessman Albee, who promises to provide them with employment in a turpentine camp. Upon their arrival at the camp, the boys are locked away behind barbed wire and are made virtual prisoners.
Social drama of Depression-era homeless children who turn to crime and are sentenced by a judge to a rehabilitation "labor camp".
