This Video set has the famous child star Jackie Cooper playing the title role of Jimmy, a newsboy-by-day/law student-by-night. Because he wants to pattern his life after the famous president, he has been given the nickname Abe Lincoln of Ninth Avenue. Experience this classic drama, one of the true classics of the genre. THE PLOT: Jackie Cooper plays the title character, Jimmy, who is a newsboy who studies law at night and puts his foot down when mobsters want a piece of the action. Jimmy Keenan (Jackie Cooper) runs a newsstand in New York by day and goes to law school at night, meanwhile keeping tabs on a pack of young hooligans who are constantly troubling the boys who work for him. Extortion-gathering hoods threaten him and his crippled pal Gimpy (Martin Spellman) When the boys get into a fight with the gang, they are hauled before a kindly judge, and Jimmy defends them persuasively. Because he wants to pattern his life after the famous president, he has been given the nickname Ab
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Amazon Video on Demand
Length: 01:05:00 Posted: 9/4/2008
