Boys Town poster
Director Norman Taurog
Screenplay Dore Schary, John Meehan

Boys Town

Drama1938

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

Release Date: 1938-09-08

Duration: 96 minutes

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.

Casting

  • Mickey Rooney
    Whitey Marsh
  • John Hamilton
    Prison Warden (uncredited)
  • Jay Novello
    Gangster (uncredited)
  • Spencer Tracy
    Father Flanagan
  • Victor Kilian
    The Sheriff
  • Addison Richards
    Judge
  • Henry Hull
    Dave Morris
  • Sidney Miller
    Mo Kahn
  • John Wray
    Weasel (uncredited)
  • Leslie Fenton
    Dan Farrow