Boy Slaves (1939) Plot Summary Explained

Release, runtime and language

1939 · 72 mins · English

Directed by

P.J. Wolfson

Starring

Alan Baxter, Charles Lane, Arthur Hohl, Paul White, Anne Shirley, Norman Willis

Set in the Great Depression, the film follows a group of homeless children who turn to petty crime to survive. After being caught, a judge sentences them to a so‑called rehabilitation labor camp, exposing how even in modern times human beings can be treated as commodities and forced into servitude.