Spencer Tracy
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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 Reynolds.
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
When Pee Wee is hit by a car, Whitey leaves, feeling guilty and hurt. He accidentally comes upon a bank robbery in Omaha and runs into Joe, who mistakenly shoots him in the leg. Joe takes Whitey to a church and calls Flanagan anonymously, after which Whitey is taken back to Boys Town.
- Norman Taurog, Horace Hough
- Spencer Tracy
The movie experience also left a deep impression on one of the smallest members of the “Boys Town” cast. Bobs Watson, the nine-year-old boy who played the pint-sized Pee Wee, was so impressed by what he had seen at Boys Town, that he dropped acting at a fairly young age and became a Methodist minister.
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Boys Town (1938) Cast and Crew | Moviefone. Movie ""No boy is bad, if given a chance!"" Movie Details Where to Watch Full Cast & Crew. Cast. Spencer Tracy. as Father Flanagan. Mickey...
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.
