Back Door to Heaven

1939 · crime · drama · William K. Howard · Vernon Steele Productions

James Lydon appears as Francis (Frankie) Rogers, a small boy living a desperate existence in a, who steals a harmonica in order to fit in with his classmates. He winds up in reform school, and eventually spends much of his life in prison. Upon his release, he (Wallace Ford - Frankie as an adult) finds that life on the outside can be just as hard as life on the inside.