Boys Town

Boys Town (1938)

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

  • Genre: Drama
  • Release Date: 1938-09-08
  • User Rating: 6.7/10 from 84 ratings
  • Runtime: 1h 36min
  • Language: English
  • Production Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
  • Production Country: United States of America
  • Director: Norman Taurog
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Summary

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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  • Spencer Tracy

    as Father Flanagan

  • Mickey Rooney

    as Whitey Marsh

  • Henry Hull

    as Dave Morris

  • Leslie Fenton

    as Dan Farrow

  • Gene Reynolds

    as Tony Ponessa

  • Edward Norris

    as Joe Marsh

  • Addison Richards

    as Judge

  • Minor Watson

    as Bishop

  • Jonathan Hale

    as John Hargraves

  • Bobs Watson

    as Pee Wee

  • Martin Spellman

    as Skinny

  • Mickey Rentschler

    as Tommy Anderson

  • Frankie Thomas

    as Freddie Fuller

  • Jimmy Butler

    as Paul Ferguson

  • Sidney Miller

    as Mo Kahn

  • Robert Emmett Keane

    as Burton

  • Victor Kilian

    as The Sheriff

  • Arthur Aylesworth

    as Tim (uncredited)

  • King Baggot

    as Derelict in Mission (uncredited)

  • Barbara Bedford

    as Nun (uncredited)

  • George Cooper

    as Tramp (uncredited)

  • Nell Craig

    as Nun (uncredited)

  • John Hamilton

    as Prison Warden (uncredited)

  • Claire McDowell

    as Nun (uncredited)

  • Jay Novello

    as Gangster (uncredited)

  • Phillip Terry

    as Newspaper Reporter (uncredited)

  • William Worthington

    as Governor (uncredited)

  • John Wray

    as Weasel (uncredited)

  • Everett Brown

    as Darky
Directing Norman Taurog Director
Writing Dore Schary Screenplay
Production John W. Considine Jr. Producer
Sound Edward Ward Original Music Composer
Camera Sidney Wagner Director of Photography
Editing Elmo Veron Editor
Art Cedric Gibbons Art Direction
Costume & Make-Up Jack Dawn Makeup Artist
Costume & Make-Up Robert J. Schiffer Makeup Artist
Production Joe Cooke Unit Manager
Production Jay Marchant Unit Manager
Directing Horace Hough Assistant Director
Writing Dore Schary Story
Writing Eleanore Griffin Story
Crew Jack Mintz Additional Writing
Art Urie McCleary Assistant Art Director
Art Edwin B. Willis Assistant Art Director
Art Clarence J. Falk Greensman
Sound Douglas Shearer Recording Supervision
Crew Slavko Vorkapich Special Effects
Directing Carl Roup Script Supervisor
Sound Leo Arnaud Music Arranger
Sound Paul Marquardt Orchestrator
Sound Leonid Raab Orchestrator
Writing John Meehan Screenplay

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