Youth Aflame (1944)

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Country: USA
Genres: Drama
Release: 1944-10-10
Director: Elmer Clifton , Lewis D. Collins
Writers: Helen Kiely , Elmer Clifton
Language: English
Stars: Joy Reese , Warren Burr , Kay Morley , Michael Owen , Rod Rogers , Edwin Brian , Julie Duncan , Sheila Roberts , Ed Cassidy , Mary Arden
Runtime: 61 min
Awards: N/A
AKA: Youth Aflame , Hoodlum Girls (Canada) , Youth Aflame (United Kingdom) , Youth Aflame (United States of America) , Hoodlum Girls (United States of America)
Plot: Katy White, is at death's door in an emergency hospital but is hanging on long enough to tell her story. In flashback, Katy tells of her widowed father , a bank guard trying to raise two teen-age daughters...Katy the nice girl and her sister, Laura the not-quite-nice girl. Katy tries to guide her sister away from bad company, but isn't having much success. Al, Laura's hoodlum boyfriend, asks her to steal her father's gun.She does so. Meanwhile, under the guidance of Helen Clark, a kindly policewoman, the better-supervised kids open up a JIVE Club in order to keep off of the Mean Streets and not drift into juvenile delinquency. Joy and Laura join the club but Laura only in order to keep late hours with Al. But Joy is keeping a watchful eye on Laura.
IMDB:tt0053463