Boys Town (1938)

Boys Town
4.3
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  • Genre: Drama
  • Running time: 96 min
  • Premiere: 8th of September 1938

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.

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Cast

Spencer Tracy
as Father Flanagan
Mickey Rooney
as Whitey Marsh
Mickey Rentschler
as Tommy Anderson
Henry Hull
as Dave Morris
Jay Novello
as Gangster (uncredited)
Gene Reynolds
as Tony Ponessa
Edward Norris
as Joe Marsh
Addison Richards
as Judge
Bobs Watson
as Pee Wee
Claire McDowell
as Nun (uncredited)
Jonathan Hale
as John Hargraves
John Hamilton
as Prison Warden (uncredited)
Phillip Terry
as Newspaper Reporter (uncredited)
Martin Spellman
as Skinny
Sidney Miller
as Mo Kahn
Victor Kilian
as The Sheriff
John Wray
as Weasel (uncredited)
King Baggot
as Derelict in Mission (uncredited)
Jimmy Butler
as Paul Ferguson
Minor Watson
as Bishop
Robert Emmett Keane
as Burton
Leslie Fenton
as Dan Farrow
William Worthington
as Governor (uncredited)
Nell Craig
as Nun (uncredited)
Frankie Thomas
as Freddie Fuller
Barbara Bedford
as Nun (uncredited)
Arthur Aylesworth
as Tim (uncredited)
George Cooper
as Tramp (uncredited)

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