Boys Town(Movie, 1938)

Name: Boys Town
Genre: Drama
Released: 1938
Duration: T01:36:00
Rating: 3.4

| 1h 36min | Genre: Drama

Rating: 3.4/5 (with 34 votes)

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 ... ()

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Duration: 1h 33min

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Awards & Nominations for Boys Town

Academy Award for Best Actor Academy Award for Best Story nominated for: Academy Award for Best Picture nominated for: Academy Award for Best Actor nominated for: Academy Award for Best Director nominated for: Academy Award for Best Story nominated for: Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay

About Boys Town

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.

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Trailer for Boys Town + Featurettes/Teaser/Clips

Trailer 1(Trailer, 3:12)

Additional Information

Production country: United States of America (USA)

Plays in: Nebraska

Made by: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Original language: English (EN)

Spoken languages: English (EN)

Translated into 9 languages: German (DE), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Italian (IT), Korean (KO), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)

Status: Released

Release date US: 09/08/1938

Cast: Spencer Tracy, Mickey Rooney, Henry Hull, Leslie Fenton, Gene Reynolds, Edward Norris, Addison Richards, Bobs Watson, Jonathan Hale, John Wray, Minor Watson, Tommy Noonan, Claire McDowell, William Worthington, King Baggot, Edward Hearn, John Hamilton, Kane Richmond, Barbara Bedford, Everett Brown, Sidney Miller, Frankie Thomas, George Cooper, Jay Novello

Director: Norman Taurog

Producer: John W. Considine Jr.

Screenwriter: Eleanore Griffin, Dore Schary, John Meehan

Film Editor: Elmo Veron

Director of Photography: Sidney Wagner

Composer: Edward Ward

Production Designer: Cedric Gibbons

Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):

"Forja de hombres"

Keywords: accident, lincoln nebraska, reform, priest, boys boarding school, nebraska, boys town, juvenile delinquent

Color: Black & White (B/W)

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