Crime School (1938)

Charles Trowbridge: Judge Clinton

Quotes 

• Sue Warren : [Pleading]  I'll take him away to a better neighborhood. I'll have more time to spend with him. Give 'em a chance, will yuh?

  Judge Clinton : I'm afraid it's too late for that, Miss Warren.

  Sue Warren : Too late? How can you say a thing like that? Maybe he'sd a little tough, but a kid's got to be tough in our neighborhood to stay alive. If you send him to reform school, I know what's gonna happen to him. He'll come out hard and mean and bitter. If you want to do something for these boys, why don't you clean up the slums? Wht don't you give 'em a decent place to live in? Give 'em some of the things other boys have! Give 'em a chance in life!

• Judge Clinton : You have quite a record, haven't you, Charles?

  Spike : It'll do.

• John Brower - Judge's Assistant : Richard Slade.

  Goofy : Me mother's in jail, me old man went to get the check. We're on relief.

  Judge Clinton : Richard, are you going to help me out and tell me what happened?

  Goofy : Sure Judge. I'll tell. I'll confess.

  Frankie Warren : Goofy!

  Goofy : I'm gonna talk. I'm gonna talk. Well Judge, I'll tell you how it happened. We were forced to do what we done, Judge. You see, Judge, Junkie's the head of a gang of crooks and they had us in their clutches. They was making us steal for them. Then we said we wouldn't steal no more, so they tried to knock us off. There we was, Judge, outnumbered two to one - a fight for life. But we came through.

  Judge Clinton : A very poor story, Richard.

  Goofy : Yeah, that's what I thought. It's playing down at Gem Theater.