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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 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
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.
Boys Town (1938) -- (Movie Clip) Eternity Begins In 45 Minutes One of the finest scenes for the overlooked Liverpool-born actor-turned-director Leslie Fenton as convict Dan, with the warden (John Hamilton), then Academy Award-winning star Spencer Tracy as Father Flanagan, Roger Converse and Walter Young in support, opening the MGM hit Boys Town ...
- Norman Taurog, Horace Hough
- Spencer Tracy
Boys Town - Full Cast & Crew. 1938. 1 hr 36 mins. Drama, Family. NR. Watchlist. Where to Watch. A fact-based portrait of Father Edward J. Flanagan, a crusading priest who built a Nebraska ...
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.
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