Boys Town
- Released on
- Runtime
- 96 mins
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.
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
- Mickey Rooney
- Henry Hull
- Leslie Fenton
- Gene Reynolds
- Edward Norris
- Addison Richards
- Minor Watson
- Jonathan Hale
- Bobs Watson
- Martin Spellman
- Mickey Rentschler
- Frankie Thomas
- Jimmy Butler
- Sidney Miller
- Robert Emmett Keane
- Victor Kilian
- Arthur Aylesworth
- King Baggot
- Barbara Bedford
- George Cooper
- Nell Craig
- John Hamilton
- Claire McDowell
- Jay Novello
- Phillip Terry
- William Worthington
- John Wray
- Everett Brown
Director
- Norman Taurog
Producers
- John W. Considine Jr.
Screenwriter
- Dore Schary
- John Meehan
