Little Tough Guy (1938)

After his father is sentenced to death for accidentally killing a cop, Johnny's family is left to fight for their own existence. His sister becomes a burlesque performer for the money while young Johnny joins a local gang and turns to a life of street crime. After much trouble and little reward for his crimes, Johnny is faced with the prospect of reform school before he makes his way to the road of recovery. "Little Tough Guy" is a true-to-life drama of one family's struggle for survival in New York's slums during the Great Depression.