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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 .
Boys Town: Directed by Norman Taurog. With Spencer Tracy, Mickey Rooney, Henry Hull, Leslie Fenton. When a death row prisoner tells him he wouldn't have led a life of crime if only he had had one friend as a child, Father Edward Flanagan decides to start a home for young boys.
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- Biography, Drama, Family
- Norman Taurog
- 1938-09-09
Idealistic, young priest Father Flanagan struggles to achieve his dream of creating a place where tough, yo ...more. Spencer Tracy, in the role for which he won his second Academy Award, stars as...
Oct 5, 2012 · He runs away again but, when friend Pee Wee is hit by a car, returns. He runs away and joins his brother's gang. Flanagan and the boys capture the crooks and the reward saves the town. MGM -...
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The world premiere of “Boys Town” was held in Omaha, Nebraska, at the Omaha Theater on September 7, 1938. An estimated crowd of 30,000 lined the streets and crowded the train station for the arrival of Hollywood’s biggest stars.
The devout but iron-willed Father Flanagan (Spencer Tracy) leads a community called Boys Town, a different sort of juvenile detention facility where, instead of being treated as...
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- Drama
Boys Town (1938) -- (Movie Clip) You Can Go On Being Nothing Pee Wee (Bobs Watson) greets financial backer Dave (Henry Hull) and Burton (Robert Emmett Keane) who find Father Flanagan (Spencer Tracy) trying to prevent newcomer Whitey (Mickey Rooney) from escaping, in MGM's Boys Town, 1938.
