Bad Boy

Danny Lester is seventeen years old. He is a young man mixed up in crime. He is facing a heavy sentence. Marshal Brown steps in. The man runs a ranch set up for boys. He persuades the judge. Danny is sent to the ranch instead of prison. There are other boys there. Marshal and his wife look after him. Danny keeps everyone at a distance to begin with. He breaks the rules and picks fights. Marshal tries to understand why. There is something in the boy’s past. The account goes looking for that reason. The ranch tries a road other than prison. Audie Murphy and Lloyd Nolan appear in the eighty six minute film, an American production Kurt Neumann finished in 1949.