King of the Newsboys

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.

Cast

Lew Ayres

as Jerry Flynn

Helen Mack

as Mary Ellen Stephens

Alison Skipworth

as Nora

Victor Varconi

as Wire Arno

Sheila Bromley

as Connie Madison

Alice White

as Dolly

Horace McMahon

as Lockjaw

William Benedict

as Squimpy

Ray Cooke

as Pussy

Jack Pennick

as Lefty

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