In director Cecil B. DeMille's modern-dress follow-up to The Sign of the Cross (1932), a group of high school students, temporarily acting as public officials (police chief, district attorney) as part of an educational exercise, take advantage of their positions to entrap and try a dangerous criminal who has murdered a local tailor. A thunderous paean to public engagement, the film rings with typically DeMillean moral certitude, pitting good citizens against lawless gangsters.
Paramount Pictures, Inc. Director: Cecil B. DeMille. Screenwriter: Bartlett Cormack. Cinematographer: Peverell Marley. Editor: Anne Bauchens. Cast: Charles Bickford, Richard Cromwell, Judith Allen, Harry Green, Bradley Page. 35mm, b/w, 86 min.
