Hell's House (1932) on Netflix
Jimmy Mason is taken in by Aunt Emma and Uncle Henry, whose boarder Matt Kelly is a bootlegger. Refusing to name Kelly in a police raid, Jimmy is sentenced to reform school.
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Plot summary
Orphaned Jimmy Mason goes to live with his Aunt Emma and Uncle Henry, and meets their boarder, Matt Kelly. Matt talks of political connections and makes an impression on the boy, though he earns his living as a bootlegger. Peggy Gardner is Matt's girl. Jimmy takes a job among Kelly's hired hands, and when the police raid the operation he will not name his boss. A judge sends him to the state industrial school for three years of hard labor. There he befriends a sickly fellow inmate called Shorty, and finds the reformatory a cruel place for the boys in it.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Hell's House (1932)
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- Universal Pictures loaned Bette Davis to B. F. Zeidman Productions for Hell's House, then let her option drop; she was set to return to New York when George Arliss offered her the ingenue role in The Man Who Played God.
