The five dollars that Junkie was going to pay Frankie for a week's work in this 1938 drama is equivalent to about $97 in 2021.
The boys at the reform school recite the Pledge of Allegiance without the phrase "under God." The phrase wasn't added to the Pledge by law until 1954.
This film marked Gale Page's screen debut. According to a news item in HR, Page replaced Gloria Dickson.
This film is similar to another Humphrey Bogart film, San Quentin (1937), in which Bogie is a San Quentin prisoner whose sister falls in love with the reform-minded captain of the guards.