One of the more infamous right-wing films of the thirties is this Cecil B. DeMille law-and-order parable in which a mob of high school students turn vigilantes when a local racketeer, Charles Bickford, manages to escape a murder charge. Bickford is kidnapped by the kids and given a third degree worthy of the Grand Inquisitor, his confession finally delivered while he dangles over a pit of rats. Andrew Bergman (Depression America and Its Films) notes that “the students were shown as typical blond specimens of American innocence...” and adds that the film actually invoked Nazi symbolism. A press release for the film reads, “‘5,000 stalwart youths...determined faces shining with eagerness...gather in a torchlight midnight tribunal to ride greed, lust and murder out of town.... SEE the gigantic mobilization of young courageous manhood. FEEL the fury of the mob.'”