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"No boy is bad, if given a chance!"
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.Read moreLess
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.
The 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. 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.
Watch trailerCast & crew
Spencer TracyFather Flanagan
Mickey RooneyWhitey Marsh
Henry HullDave Morris
Leslie FentonDan Farrow
Gene ReynoldsTony Ponessa
Edward NorrisJoe Marsh
Addison RichardsJudge
Minor WatsonBishop
Jonathan HaleJohn Hargraves
Bobs WatsonPee Wee
Martin SpellmanSkinny
Mickey RentschlerTommy AndersonExplore the crew
- Screenplay
- Dore Schary
- Director
- Norman Taurog
- Original Music Composer
- Edward Ward
- Director of Photography
- Sidney Wagner
- Editor
- Elmo Veron
- Producer
- John W. Considine Jr.
- Screenplay
- John Meehan