Mickey Rooney headlines this Monogram quickie (62m) made just months after filming the first of his wildly successful Andy Hardy series (A-Family-Affair), a role that shot him to fame and Hollywood's #1 box office draw. Don't be fooled by its low-budget feel as Hoosier is a pleaser, the Mick playing what'd become his trademark troubled teen (Shockey) who, if he can catch a break, will turn a new leaf. The divine Anne Nagel whose passing star should've risen as high as Rooney's, impresses as the town's new teacher, arriving during a labor dispute and maybe a template for Tracy's Father Flanagan, while her romantic interest is played adroitly by tennis star, Frank Shields. The film is noteworthy for 1) how love inspires, and 2) an early treatment of PTSD in Shockey's Dad (Pawley), showing ill-effects of shell-shock from heroics earning him the Congressional Medal of Honor. Short, engaging, sensitive yet mostly forgotten (3/4).