John Garfield, a boxer, kills a reporter who threatened to besmirch his all-American-boy image with the truth; on the lam, pursued by detective Claude Rains, he lands out West, on a farm in Arizona, playing hero to none other than the Dead End Kids. "Claude Rains gets to play Javert to Garfield's Jean Valjean, and does it beautifully...This is a sentimental sucker punch of a movie, but one with a straightforward recognition of man's inhumanity to man. And great scenes with Garfield running from a railroad bull on the tops of boxcars with the train moving, bloody boxing matches, and the usual Dead End Kids' antics. Fast-moving, Depression-era melodrama with credit to Victor Hugo." --Barry Gifford