Moving story of a gangster's son (Tommy Kelly) taunted by his classmates. Dick: Bobby Jordan. Sandy: David Holt. Prentiss: Jackie Searl. Dewey: Jimmy Butler. Lewis: Don Beddoe. Blackburn: Walter Tetley. Dover: Earle Foxe. Kendall: Edward Dew. Marjorie: Joan Brodel (Leslie). Banning: Warren Ashe. Effective direction (D. Ross Lederman).
Out of the same mold as BOYS TOWN, MILITARY ACADEMY focuses on boys who, in the course of 66 minutes, become young men. Kelly is a gangster's son who rises above his father, and Jordan, one of the Dead End Kids, is the big man at the academy.