The Young Don't Cry is a 1957 American film noir crime film directed by Alfred L. Werker and starring Sal Mineo, James Whitmore and J. Carrol Naish.

Leslie Henderson, a teen boy, gets to know one of the convicts, Rudy Krist, who saved Les's life from a rattlesnake.

Successful businessman Max Cole mocks boys like Les who look out for anybody but themselves.

At the prison, Rudy and his inmate friend Doosy are treated inhumanely by a brutal warden, Plug.

When he sees Rudy flee in one direction, Doosy runs the other way, but is hunted down by prison dogs and killed.