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Boys Town (1938)

Boys Town (1938)

Drama

"No boy is bad, if given a chance!"

Release Date: 1938, September 8
Directors: Norman Taurog
Countries: United States of America
Production: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Cast: Addison Richards, Everett Brown, John Wray, Mickey Rooney, Jay Novello, Henry Hull, Spencer Tracy, John Hamilton, Jonathan Hale, Victor Kilian, King Baggot, Robert Emmett Keane

Overview:

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.

Keywords:

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