Streets of San Francisco is a 1949 American crime film directed by George Blair, written by John K. Butler and starring Robert Armstrong, Mae Clarke, Gary Gray, Wally Cassell, Richard Benedict and John Harmon.
[1][2][3] Frankie Fraser finds out his father Luke has committed a theft netting $250,000.
Fraser's partners in crime come to snatch the boy, shooting and wounding Pop in the process.
At the train station where the stolen loot is stashed, Frankie manages to tip off a clerk to call the police.
The gang is overcome with tear gas, after which Will takes the boy safely home.