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  1. 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.

  2. 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.

    • (6.1K)
    • Biography, Drama, Family
    • Norman Taurog
    • 1938-09-09
  3. With a small stake from kindhearted pawnbroker Dave Morris, Flanagan starts the home but constantly must sway people who think that his philosophy "there's no such thing as a bad boy" is naive. He wins the reluctant support of newspaper publisher John Hargraves and donations start to mount.

    • Norman Taurog, Horace Hough
    • Spencer Tracy
  4. Watch the official trailer of Boys Town, a classic drama film starring Mickey Rooney and Spencer Tracy, based on a true story of a priest and his orphanage.

    • Oct 5, 2012
    • 169.8K
    • Rotten Tomatoes Classic Trailers
  5. Spencer Tracy stars with child-star Mickey Rooney in this Oscar® nominated moving story of a priest who develops a school for juvenile delinquents. 1,218 IMDb 7.2 1 h 32 min 1938. X-Ray 13+.

    • 92 min
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  7. This full-length movie is available on YouTube. Buy or rent. 0:00 / 3:11. Spencer Tracy, in the role for which he won his second Academy Award, stars as Father Flanagan, the real-life founder of...

  8. The devout but iron-willed Father Flanagan (Spencer Tracy) leads a community called Boys Town, a different sort of juvenile detention facility where, instead of being treated as underage...

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    • Drama
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