A young Christian Bale played strike leader Jack ... be a musical up until Ortega's involvement. Moreover, both Bale and David Moscow, who plays David Jacobs in the film, were not trained ...

Inspired by the strike put on by the trolley workers, Jack "Cowboy" Kelly (Christian Bale) organizes a newsboys' strike. With David Jacobs (David Moscow) as the brains of the new union ...