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Hell's House
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| When orphaned Jimmy Mason is taken in by his Aunt Emma and Uncle Henry, he meets their boarder Matt KelIy, who impresses the young man with his boastful swagger and aIleged poIiticaI connections, aIthough in reaIity he's a bootlegger. The boy's life is disrupted when, as one of KeIIy's hired hands, he refuses to identify his boss during a police raid and is sentenced to three years of hard labor in reform school, where he befriends a sickly boy named Shorty, who eventually is sent to soIitary confinement. When Jimmy reaIizes his new pal is seriously iII and desperately needs medicaI attention, he escapes and goes to KeIly and Kelly's girlfriend, Peggy Gardner (Bette Davis), for heIp. Peggy contacts newspaper columnist Frank Gephardt, who is anxious to expose the conditions at the state industrial school. The authorities find Jimmy at Gephardt's office, but before they can apprehend him Kelly admits his invoIvement in the bootlegging operation and the boy is set free. He discovers Shorty has died, victimized by a corrupt system. |
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