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Boys Town

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

1938★ 6.8 · 1081h 36mDrama

Overview

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

Mickey Rooney
as Whitey Marsh

Sidney Miller
as Mo Kahn

Spencer Tracy
as Father Flanagan

John Hamilton
as Prison Warden (uncredited)

Jonathan Hale
as John Hargraves

Gene Reynolds
as Tony Ponessa

Minor Watson
as Bishop

Barbara Bedford
as Nun (uncredited)

Phillip Terry
as Newspaper Reporter (uncredited)

Victor Kilian
as The Sheriff

Henry Hull
as Dave Morris

Jay Novello
as Gangster (uncredited)

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Release date: 1938-09-08

Runtime: 1h 36m

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Drama

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