"In 1931, two eighteen-year-olds charged with second-degree robbery admitted they were inspired by gangster films to try the "easy money racket" for themselves. Before sending them to a reformatory, the presiding judge had some harsh words for the film industry: "The moving picture industry is complaining about poor business, but it only has itself to blame. Gangster and sex pictures, which seem to predominate, are killing the goose that lays the golden eggs. No responsible parent cares to take children to these pictures. Maybe some day the industry will again become respectable; but until then it will not be a financial success.""