Boy of the Streets (1937)

CHUCK WANTED TO BE A BIG SHOT LIKE HIS OLD MAN...until one day...he learned the old man was a two-bit stooge!
Jackie Cooper plays Chuck Brennan, a young teen in New York City who grapples with a deadbeat father, and the law of the big city streets.

Director William Nigh
Starring Jackie Cooper, Maureen O'Connor and Kathleen Burke