04 May 1934
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The friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and fall in love with the same woman.
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Annie (Ann Gillis), an orphan, (based on Harold Gray's comic strip but who is at no point in the film called 'Little Orphan Annie), is befriended by a fight manager, 'Pop' Corrigan (J. Farrell MacDonald). She brings him Johnny Adams (Robert Kent), a promising prizefighter. Annie gets the people of the neighborhood to finance his training. But on the night of Johnny's big fight, a gambling syndicate locks him in a gymnasium and it appears the neighborhood folks will lose their investment.
Top Billed Cast
Ann Gillis Annie
Robert Kent Johnny Adams
June Travis Mary Ellen
J. Farrell MacDonald 'Pop' Corrigan
J.M. Kerrigan Tom Jennings
Margaret Armstrong Mrs. Jennings
Sarah Padden Mrs. Nora Moriarty
James Burke Mike Moriarty
Ian Maclaren Soo Long
Dorothy Vaughan Mrs. Milligan
Ben Welden Spot McGee
Charles Coleman The Butler
Eddie Gribbon Monk
Vince Lombardi Ska-Booch
Harry Tyler O.O. Pike
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