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Find out who starred in the classic film Boys Town, directed by Norman Taurog and based on a true story. See the full list of actors, writers, producers, and other crew members on IMDb.
Boys Town. (film) Boys Town is a 1938 American biographical drama film based on Father Edward J. Flanagan 's work with a group of underprivileged boys in a home/educational complex that he founded and named "Boys Town" in Nebraska. It stars Spencer Tracy as Father Edward J. Flanagan, and Mickey Rooney with Henry Hull, Leslie Fenton, and Gene ...
Boys Town: Directed by Norman Taurog. With Spencer Tracy, Mickey Rooney, Henry Hull, Leslie Fenton. When a death row prisoner tells him he wouldn't have led a life of crime if only he had had one friend as a child, Father Edward Flanagan decides to start a home for young boys.
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- Biography, Drama, Family
- Norman Taurog
- 1938-09-09
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 ...
A fact-based portrait of Father Edward J. Flanagan, a crusading priest who built a Nebraska community for orphans and believed that "there's no such thing as a bad boy," although his theory is ...
- Norman Taurog
Boys Town (1938) -- (Movie Clip) No Such Thing As A Bad Boy Father Flanagan (Spencer Tracy) lobbies Nebraska newspaper magnate Hargraves (Jonathan Hale), a montage creates the buildings, and financier Dave (Henry Hull) frets, in MGM's. Having rushed into court to defend some of his charges, Father Flanagan (Spencer Tracy) persuades pawn-broker ...
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John Meehan. Screenplay. Eleanore Griffin. Story. 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 ...
