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Reform School is a 1939 Million Dollar Productions American film produced by Harry M. Popkin, directed by Leo C. Popkin, written by Joseph O'Donnell and Hazel Jamieson and starring Louise Beavers. In 1944, the film was rereleased as Prison Bait.
Reform School: Directed by Leo C. Popkin. With Louise Beavers, Reginald Fenderson, Eugene Jackson, Freddie Jackson. A female warden takes over at a state reform school and attempts to bring about needed changes.
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- Drama
- Leo C. Popkin
- 1939-04-27
Reform School tells the story of Freddie Barton (Reginald Fenderson), a Black teenager convicted of a petty offense who consequently cannot find work and falls back into a life of crime.
A female warden takes over at a state reform school and attempts to bring about needed changes. Restored in 2020 by the Academy Film Archive with additional funding from the National Endowment for the Arts from a 16mm print donated by Giancarlo Esposito and Laurence Fishburne.
- Leo C. Popkin
- Million Dollar Productions
Overview. A female warden takes over at a state reform school and attempts to bring about needed changes. Restored in 2020 by the Academy Film Archive with additional funding from the National Endowment for the Arts from a 16mm print donated by Giancarlo Esposito and Laurence Fishburne.
Reform School. Louise Beavers gives a commanding lead performance as the crusading Mother Barton in this race film long believed to be lost, also known by its misleading re-release title Prison Bait.
In Harlem, parole violator Freddie Gordon, who is unsuccessful at finding a job because of his reform school record, turns instead to crime. After robbing a gas station, Freddie is caught by the police and sent back to reform school, where he becomes a victim of the brutal superintendent, Mr. Stone, and his corrupt guard, Jackson.
