This Day and Age

This Day and Age

86 mins | Drama, Crime, Romance | Aug. 25, 1933

A modern-day tale of gangsterism and revenge. After a notorious mobster murders a Jewish tailor and is let off for the crime, a band of outraged high-school students turns into vigilante crusaders hell-bent on punishing the wrongdoers. Memorable pre-Code moment: the students torturing a gangster by dangling him over a pit filled with rats.

This Day and Age

86 mins | Drama, Crime, Romance | Aug. 25, 1933

This Day and Age
A modern-day tale of gangsterism and revenge. After a notorious mobster murders a Jewish tailor and is let off for the crime, a band of outraged high-school students turns into vigilante crusaders hell-bent on punishing the wrongdoers. Memorable pre-Code moment: the students torturing a gangster by dangling him over a pit filled with rats.
IMDb rating 6.3
Producers Paramount
Original title This Day and Age
Directors Roy Burns, Cecil B. DeMille
Writers Bartlett Cormack

Cast

Charles Bickford

as Louis Garrett

Richard Cromwell

as Steve Smith

Judith Allen

as Gay Merrick

Bradley Page

as Toledo

Harry Green

as Herman

Ben Alexander

as Morry Dover

Edward Nugent

as Don Merrick

Lester Arnold

as Sam Weber

Charles Middleton

as District Attorney

George Barbier

as Judge Maguire

Samuel S. Hinds

as Mayor

Billy Gilbert

as Nightclub Manager

Louise Carter

as Grace Smith

Fuzzy Knight

as Max

John Carradine

as Assistant Principal

Michael Stuart

as Billy

Edwin Maxwell

as Mayor's Assistant

Sidney Miller

as Harold Miller

Toby Wing

as Student (uncredited)