Hit the Road
Hit the Road is a 1941 American comedy crime film directed by Joe May and featuring the Dead End Kids and Little Tough Guys alongside Gladys George, Barton MacLane and Evelyn Ankers. It was produced and distributed by Universal Pictures.
Plot
Delinquent gang members Tom, Pig, Ape, and String are trying to break out from the reformatory their confined to, but they are caught and brought to the parole officer Cathy Crookshank. All of the gang members are sons of gangsters, which makes it even harder for them to get paroled. They tell their superintendent this, and that they have no sponsor. To remedy this, Miss Crookshank asks the leader of the boys fathers' gang, Valentine, to come to her office. Valentine is barely released from prison. He is reluctant to help the boys, arguing that he is a reformed man and is now living on a farm with his wife Molly and their daughter Pat. He has also decided to take a new name, "Ryan."
More details
author | Brenda Weisberg |
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director | Joe May |
editor | Bernard W. Burton |
genre | comedy crime |
keywords | break out confine district attorney flat tire gang member hide out hunting dog id kill locked in new home parole officer paul revere reform scheme station wagon string talk teenage gang young man |
musicBy | Hans J. Salter |
producer | Ken Goldsmith |
productionCompany | Universal Pictures |
publisher | Universal Pictures |
theme | crime comedy |