- The Season's Greatest Picture!
- Broadway---the blare of the cabarets---the intrigue of the bootleg kings---gunmen and gangsmen---and between them all a boy who killed in the name of justice---and was willing to die in the name of his mother's honor.
- Not in years has the screen given you drama so realistic---so vivid---so appealing! A supreme characterization by the star of the immortal "The Patent Leather Kid."
- -a white-faced kid with a smoking gun in his hand stood over the body of Buck Gordon, gunman and hi-jacker. They didn't know he had killed a man! They didn't know he was trying to go straight! (Print Ad-Daily Nebraskan, ((Lincoln, Neb.)) 12 February 1928)
- Amazing new role for Dick, another brilliant success. To speak meant freedom- silence the gallows. Should he betray the honor of the mother he never knew. (Print Ad- Amherstburg Echo, ((Amherstburg, PO)) 11 May 1928)
- He was a gangster kid---his mother was a great lady. And he was willing to "swing" that she might remain a great lady! GREAT AS A PLAY GREATER AS A PICTURE (Print Ad- Albany Evening News, ((Albany NY)) 14 January 1928)
- It was a great as a stage play and greater as a movie. Every known emotion will be stirred in the story of a gangster lad who would rather die than betray his mother's great secret (Print Ad-Sheffield Observer, ((Sheffield, Penna.)) 21 June 1928)
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