Comedy about parole probation officer

A hapless parole officer is framed for murder by a crooked police chief. To prove his innocence he must entice his former clients away from the law abiding lives they are now living to recover the evidence that will save him.

Proposal about a kind hearted parole officer (David Herman), who, to help those placed in his charge, tries to become their best friend to keep them out of trouble.

Follows a fair parole officer and his parolee who wants to go straight but his former business associates are after him.

A probationer wants to miss a meeting to go and see his brother, but must negotiate with his officer.

A federal agent's life is in danger when he's exposed while investigating a parole scheme.

Walter Dishman, a married and melancholy parole officer, deals with three eccentric ex-convicts who have been placed under his supervision.

Following a long investigation, Police Detective-Lieutenant Anthony "Tony" Roberts becomes convinced that there is some powerful unknown-master-mind leader behind the gangs of crooks who are terrorizing the city, and it has something to do with paroled convicts. He sets up a scheme with his supervisor to have himself shamed by being demoted to a patrolman and then caught in the act of receiving bribe-money from a racketeer. He is convicted and sent to prison, and the manner in which his parole is arranged leads him, dangerously, to the secret-head of the gang.

Part of BFI collection "Police and Thieves." Follows the work of a probation officer and the people he tries to help.