Mickey Rooney plays Shockey Carter, a small-town Indiana schoolboy
whose quick temper and ragged clothes hide the real problem: a
widowed, shell-shocked father (Frank Shields) who's lost the will to
work. When the town's new schoolteacher takes an interest in the boy,
local busybodies use it as an excuse to run the family out of town.
A Monogram drama directed by William Nigh that gave the teenage Rooney
one of his better pre-Hardy dramatic roles. The film is in the public
domain.
Drama
