Boys Town (1938)
September 8, 1938Release Date
Boys Town (1938)
September 8, 1938Release Date
Plot.
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This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Spencer Tracy
Father Flanagan
Mickey Rooney
Whitey Marsh
Henry Hull
Dave Morris
Leslie Fenton
Dan Farrow
Gene Reynolds
Tony Ponessa
Edward Norris
Joe Marsh
Addison Richards
The Judge
Minor Watson
The Bishop
Jonathan Hale
John Hargraves
Jack Mintz
Writer
Martin Spellman
Skinny
Bobs Watson
Pee Wee
Norman Taurog
Director
Mickey Rentschler
Tommy Anderson
Frankie Thomas
Freddie Fuller
John Meehan
Writer
Dore Schary
Writer
Jimmy Butler
Paul Ferguson
Eleanore Griffin
Writer
Sidney Miller
Mo Kahn
John W. Considine Jr.
Producer
Robert Emmett Keane
Burton
Victor Kilian
The Sheriff
Edward Ward
Composer
Arthur Aylesworth
Tim (uncredited)
Sidney Wagner
Cinematographer
Elmo Veron
Editor
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)
Everett Brown
Darky
Cedric Gibbons
Art Direction
Edwin B. Willis
Assistant Art Director
Media.
Details.
Release DateSeptember 8, 1938
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 36m
Content RatingNR
Genres
Wiki.
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. It stars Spencer Tracy as Father Edward J. Flanagan, and Mickey Rooney with Henry Hull, Leslie Fenton, and Gene Reynolds.
The film was written by Dore Schary, Eleanore Griffin, and John Meehan, and was directed by Norman Taurog. Tracy won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance.
Legendary Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio head Louis B. Mayer, who was a Belarusian-Canadian-American Jew known for his respect for the Catholic Church, later called this his favorite film of his long tenure at MGM.Although the story is largely fictional, it is based upon a real man and a real place. Boys Town is a community outside Omaha, Nebraska. In 1941, MGM made a sequel, Men of Boys Town, with Spencer Tracy and Mickey Rooney reprising their roles from the earlier film.