Boys Town

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

96 mins
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.

Spencer Tracy

Father Flanagan

Mickey Rooney

Whitey Marsh

Henry Hull

Dave Morris

Leslie Fenton

Dan Farrow

Gene Reynolds

Tony Ponessa

Edward Norris

Joe Marsh

Jonathan Hale

John Hargraves

Mickey Rentschler

Tommy Anderson

Frankie Thomas

Freddie Fuller

Jimmy Butler

Paul Ferguson

Victor Kilian

The Sheriff

Arthur Aylesworth

Tim (uncredited)

King Baggot

Derelict in Mission (uncredited)

Barbara Bedford

Nun (uncredited)

George Cooper

Tramp (uncredited)

Nell Craig

Nun (uncredited)

John Hamilton

Prison Warden (uncredited)

Claire McDowell

Nun (uncredited)

Jay Novello

Gangster (uncredited)

Phillip Terry

Newspaper Reporter (uncredited)

William Worthington

Governor (uncredited)

John Wray

Weasel (uncredited)

Dore Schary

Screenplay

Cedric Gibbons

Art Direction

Joe Cooke

Unit Manager

Jay Marchant

Unit Manager

Jack Dawn

Makeup Artist

Horace Hough

Assistant Director

Sidney Wagner

Director of Photography

Robert J. Schiffer

Makeup Artist

Edward Ward

Original Music Composer

Leo Arnaud

Music Arranger

Carl Roup

Script Supervisor

Slavko Vorkapich

Special Effects

Edwin B. Willis

Assistant Art Director

Douglas Shearer

Recording Supervision

Jack Mintz

Additional Writing

Urie McCleary

Assistant Art Director

Leonid Raab

Orchestrator

Paul Marquardt

Orchestrator

John Meehan

Screenplay

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