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Boys Town (1938)
Directed by Norman Taurog
“"No boy is bad, if given a chance!"”
Drama · 1h 36m
Devout but iron-willed Father Flanagan leads a community called Boys Town, a different sort of juvenile detention facility where, instead of being treated as underage criminals, the boys are shepherded into making themselves better people. But hard-nosed petty thief and pool shark Whitey Marsh, the impulsive and violent younger brother of an imprisoned murderer, might be too much for the good father's tough-love system.
Cast
Spencer Tracy
Father Flanagan
Mickey Rooney
Whitey Marsh
Henry Hull
Dave Morris
Leslie Fenton
Dan Farrow
Gene Reynolds
Tony Ponessa
Edward Norris
Joe Marsh
Addison Richards
Judge
Minor Watson
Bishop
Jonathan Hale
John Hargraves
Bobs Watson
Pee Wee
Martin Spellman
Skinny
Mickey Rentschler
Tommy Anderson
Crew
- Director
- Norman Taurog
- Screenplay
- Dore Schary, John Meehan
- Director of Photography
- Sidney Wagner
- Original Music Composer
- Edward Ward
- Editor
- Elmo Veron
- Producer
- John W. Considine Jr.
Details
- Release date
- 1938-09-08
- Runtime
- 1h 36m
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer