Eagle-Lion Films
Directed by William Castle
My rating: 1.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Turner Classic Movies)
Midget Paul Dale has a hard time growing up in a small California town. His father yanks him out of school, his sister is ashamed of him and his best friend marries someone else. He leaves home and ends up shining shoes on the streets of LA. He befriends a group of pickpockets and they show him the ropes, but once again love lets him down and he turns to alcohol. A friendly judge sends him to Miami where a circus becomes his new family. William Castle certainly knows how to pick his subject matter to gain maximum publicity, but the acting is strictly amateur and it would be condemned today as politically incorrect.
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