Summary of movie Boy Friend (1939)
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Sally Murphy (Jane Withers) helps her mother (Myra Marsh) run a boarding house for police rookies that includes Tommy Bradley (Robert Kellard) and Janes brother Jimmy (Richard Bond). The latter is in love with Sue Duffy (Arleen Whelan), daughter of police Captain Duffy (Minor Watson), but Jimmy cant get along with Sues father. Jimmy plans secretly to join the notorious gang led by Ed Boyd (Douglas Fowley).
Tommys kid brother, Billy (George Ernest), arrives for a visit all shiny and spiffy in his military cadet uniform, and Sally falls for him at once. Tommy is taking the pair to the ice cream shop and, while walking a discreet distance behind the two young lovebirds, glances up an alley and sees Boyds gang, including Jimmy, robbing a fur shop. Tommy is shot down and the gang escapes.
Jimmy severs all connection with the police and becomes the manager of Byods night club.
Jane is determined to leran who killed Tommy even if it implicates her brother, whom she suspects after finding a clue in his room. She takes Billy to the night club and puts on a song and dance while Billy seacrhes for evidence, which he finds.
After putting Captain Duffy and his rookies on the trail of the fur shop loot, Jane and Billy discover that Jimmy had joined the gang under Captain Duffys order.
Boyd has also learned the same and decides to have Jimmy killed.
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Boy Friend (1939)
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