Ladies They Talk About / Wild Boys of the Road

LADIES THEY TALK ABOUT, 1933, Warner Bros., 69 min. Dir. Howard Bretherton & William Keighley. Gun moll Barbara Stanwyck is nailed for abetting her male friends in a robbery, but her former hometown pal, radio evangelist Preston Foster, goes to bat for her with the DA. Temporarily paroled to Foster, Stanwyck confesses she really was part of the robbery, and straight arrow Foster turns her in to do her time. Bitter Stanwyck interacts with her new prison mates.

WILD BOYS OF THE ROAD, 1933, Warner Bros., 68 min. Dir. William Wellman. During the Great Depression, high schoolers Eddie (Frankie Darro) and Tommy (Edwin Phillips) decide to take off on their own, no longer wanting to burden their parents with another mouth to feed. A cross-country trip in search of work ensues, and they meet many other vagabond teenagers.