This Day and Age

A modern-day tale of gangsterism and revenge. After a notorious mobster murders a Jewish tailor and is let off for the crime, a band of outraged high-school students turns into vigilante crusaders hell-bent on punishing the wrongdoers. Memorable pre-Code moment: the students torturing a gangster by dangling him over a pit filled with rats.

Cast

Charles Bickford

as Louis Garrett

Richard Cromwell

as Steve Smith

Judith Allen

as Gay Merrick

Bradley Page

as Toledo

Harry Green

as Herman

Ben Alexander

as Morry Dover

Edward Nugent

as Don Merrick

Lester Arnold

as Sam Weber

Charles Middleton

as District Attorney

George Barbier

as Judge Maguire

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