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Boys Town

"No boy is bad, if given a chance!"

1938 · NR · 1h 36m

Directed by Norman Taurog

6.8

TMDB audience score
111 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

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.

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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

  • Frankie Thomas
    Freddie Fuller

  • Jimmy Butler
    Paul Ferguson

  • Sidney Miller
    Mo Kahn

  • Robert Emmett Keane
    Burton

  • Victor Kilian
    The Sheriff

  • Arthur Aylesworth
    Tim (uncredited)