Pat O'Brien and Joan Blondell play a pair of reporters in Off The Record who take
in young Bobby Jordan after his guardian and brother Alan Baxter is picked up o
a gambling rap. In fact Baxter is taking a fall for an Arnold Rothstein type of
character Morgan Conway. It leaves Jordan in a state orphan asylum for which
he blames the reporters.
Eventually as they do in all these city tough kid films made back in the day Jordan does soften especially after they find something that interests him.
Some plot elements from Boystown are found here. Bobby Jordan who usually is in the pack in support of Leo Gorcey and Huntz Hall in those East Side Kid/Bowery Boys films for maybe the only time in his career Jordan is the main protagonist in a movie. He does well, just like Mickey Rooney in Boys Town.
O'Brien and Blondell play their typical characters as well. Their fans should be pleased.
Eventually as they do in all these city tough kid films made back in the day Jordan does soften especially after they find something that interests him.
Some plot elements from Boystown are found here. Bobby Jordan who usually is in the pack in support of Leo Gorcey and Huntz Hall in those East Side Kid/Bowery Boys films for maybe the only time in his career Jordan is the main protagonist in a movie. He does well, just like Mickey Rooney in Boys Town.
O'Brien and Blondell play their typical characters as well. Their fans should be pleased.