King of the Newsboys (The Film Detective Restored Version)

Lew Ayres is the undisputed king of the newsboys in this stirring melodrama from Republic Pictures. Ayres plays Jerry Flynn, a young man from the slums whose girlfriend leaves him for a rich gangster. Determined to become a success, Flynn pours his energy into a newspaper distribution business that becomes the best in the city, but at what price? Also starring Alison Skipworth, Helen Mack, and Alice White, this movie shows what kind of people grow out of the squalor of the tenements

• classic film
• drama
• the film detective