Boy In Court
Channel: Two Broke Rednecks
Date: 22/07/2014

Boy In Court is the story of Johnny, a wayward youth who gets arrested for auto theft. He is then placed in the care of the juvenile court system. Instead of being sent to jail and from there, a reformatory, he is sent to a boarding house for youthful offenders. From there he appears at the probation office intake where he is assigned a probation officer and returned to the boarding house. The probation officer investigates, Johnny's home life, gang, and school. He then attends with Johnny and Johnny's mother a session in closed chambers before a juvenile court judge who sentences Johnny to probation. Johnny's probation officer takes on the role as mentor to the boy and visits him often, aiding in Johnny's rehabilitation. The probation officer enlist the aid of social services to help out Johnny's family and later persuades Johnny to study deeply into Johnny's love of aviation. Finally after a year on probation, Johnny is rehabilitated into a model citizen. He thanks the judge for not sending him to the reformatory and giving him a chance to be rehabilitated. He is then removed from probation and sent on his way. This movie is pure cheese. And we had to nibble it. It is a bit liberal by 1950s standards in the treatment of a juvenile offender. Also the probation officer works more as a social worker than a probation officer in this film. The urge for us to riff it was too great for us to resist.