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They Made Me a Criminal (1939)
American Film Noir Crime Drama.
A champion boxer on the lamb, believed to have committed murder while drunk, takes refuge and finds redemption at a farm for delinquent youths.
It is a remake of the film The Life of Jimmy Dolan (1933).
Portions of the film were shot in the Coachella Valley, California.
This film also contains the first malapropism of the Dead End Kids/East Side Kids/Bowery Boys series when Jordan says Regenerate, ya dope when Hall used the word degenerate.
Malapropisms became a staple of these films, with Gorcey using them on a regular basis throughout the series.
A malapropism (also called a malaprop, acyrologia, or Dogberryism) is the mistaken use of an incorrect word in place of a word with a similar sound, resulting in a nonsensical, sometimes humorous utterance.
| Directed by | Busby Berkeley |
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| Based on | Sucker 1933 play by Bertram Millhauser Beulah Marie Dix |
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| Cinematography | James Wong Howe |
| Edited by | Jack Killifer |
| Music by | Max Steiner |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
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92 min. |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
