Take My Life is a prison-themed drama featuring The Harlem Tuff Kids (billed here as The Harlem Dead End Kids in reference to the all-white actors) as they enlist in the U.S. Army. The roughneck group has the opportunity to demonstrate their heroism in this now-lost film. The movie opened at the famous Apollo Theater in Harlem and the poster promises to show that “Harlem Goes to War!” This was especially significant as the film was released at a time when the U.S. Army was still segregated and many Black soldiers faced racism, harassment, and threats of violence. Harlem often served as a stand-in for “Black” in movie advertising and situated Black people outside the agrarian and antiquated traditions of the South. This generic signifier was even more pervasive in the 1930s when Hollywood studios began to produce and profit from films like this one.