LITTLE TOUGH GUYS IN SOCIETY (1938) Mischa Auer, Edward Everett Horton, Helen Parrish | Comedy | B&W

Little Tough Guys in Society is a 1938 Universal Studios film that starred several of the Dead End Kids. It was the second film that Universal made in their series and the first of three that they made without any of the original Dead End Kids.

SYNOPSIS
Under a doctor's orders, a society matron invites six ruffians to her estate as playmates for her spoiled brat son.

Mrs. Berry, a socialite, hires a psychiatrist to care for her son Randolph. He exhibits antisocial behavior and stays bedridden all day. The doctor determines that if he was exposed to other boys of a lesser social stature he will break out of his shell and resume his place in society. They contact a place in the city and hire six underprivileged kids to come out to the country to help out. The boys who arrive are not the boys who were originally hired, but a gang of misfits who are wanted for destroying a glass factory.

CAST & CREW
Frankie Thomas as Danny
Harris Berger as Sailor
Hally Chester as Murphy
Charles Duncan as Monk
David Gorcey as Yap
William Benedict as Trouble
Mischa Auer as Dr. Trenkle
Mary Boland as Mrs. Berry
Edward Everett Horton as Oliver
Helen Parrish as Penny
Jackie Searl as Randolf Berry
Peggy Stewart as Jane
Harold Huber as Uncle Buck
David Oliver as Footman
Stanley Blystone as Policeman
Eddie Hall as Cabbie
Samuel S. Hinds as Judge
Lon McCallister as unnamed
Sarah Padden as Victim
Frances Robinson as Guest
Dick Rush as Jim

Directed by Erle C. Kenton
Written by Edward Eliscu, Mortimer Offner
Produced by Max H. Gordon
Cinematography George Robinson
Music by Frank Skinner
Distributed by Universal Studios
Release date November 1, 1938
Running time 63 minutes
Country United States
Language English

NOTES
The writers Mortimer Offner and Edward Eliscu were related by marriage. Eliscu's wife Stella Bloch was Mortimer's cousin. Eliscu and Offner were both eventually blacklisted.