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Boys Town

Boys Town

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Status

Released

Release Date

Sep 8, 1938

Runtime

1h 36m

Genres

Drama

User Score

67%

Original Title

Boys Town

Production Companies

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Director

Norman Taurog

Description

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.