Mr. Wise Guy

Mr. Wise Guy is a 1942 American film starring The East Side Kids and directed by William Nigh.

Jim Barnes Jack Mulhall, the new warden, reassures Dannys older brother Bill Douglas Fowley, who has bad memories of the school from when he served as a guard there, that his testimony describing the places cruelty eventually resulted in the dismissal of the former warden and the adoption of gentler rules. Bill is given a tour of the school by Barness secretary, Ann Mitchell Joan Barclay, and later takes her out to dinner.That night, while Bill buys cigarettes in a drugstore, escaped convict Luke Manning Guinn Williams robs the place and murders the clerk. Manning takes Bill hostage in his car and forces him to lead the police on a chase. Manning escapes when Bill crashes the car, and Bill is later convicted of robbery and murder and sentenced to execution. ........

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