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.
Cast
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
Judge
Minor Watson
Bishop
Jonathan Hale
John Hargraves
Bobs Watson
Pee Wee
Martin Spellman
Skinny
Mickey Rentschler
Tommy Anderson
Frankie Thomas
Freddie Fuller
Jimmy Butler
Paul Ferguson
Sidney Miller
Mo Kahn
Robert Emmett Keane
Burton
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)
Everett Brown
Darky
Crew
Norman Taurog
Director
Dore Schary
Screenplay, Story
John Meehan
Screenplay
Eleanore Griffin
Story
Elmo Veron
Editor
Sidney Wagner
Director of Photography
Horace Hough
Assistant Director
John W. Considine Jr.
Producer
Jack Dawn
Makeup Artist
Robert J. Schiffer
Makeup Artist
Urie McCleary
Assistant Art Director
Edwin B. Willis
Assistant Art Director
Slavko Vorkapich
Special Effects
Edward Ward
Original Music Composer
Leo Arnaud
Music Arranger
Carl Roup
Script Supervisor
Jack Mintz
Additional Writing
Douglas Shearer
Recording Supervision
Joe Cooke
Unit Manager
Jay Marchant
Unit Manager
Cedric Gibbons
Art Direction
Paul Marquardt
Orchestrator
Leonid Raab
Orchestrator
Clarence J. Falk
Greensman
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