
TMDb Rating
4.0/10
3 verified votes
King of the Newsboys (1938)
DramaRomance
65 min
"MEN IN THE MAKING But what kind of men grow out of the squalor of the tenements...from the sordid back alleys of the slums?"
Plot Summary
A poor young man's girlfriend leaves him for a gangster, who has the money and power she wants and the young man doesn't have. Determined to show her that he can be a success--and how much of a mistake she made by leaving him--he starts up a newspaper distribution business that is soon the biggest in the city, but things don't turn out exactly the way he wanted them to.
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Keywords to include
DramaRomanceBernard VorhausLew AyresHelen Mack1938
Director
Bernard Vorhaus
Top Cast
Lew AyresHelen MackAlison SkipworthVictor VarconiSheila Bromley
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