Title: Boys Town
Runtime: 96 Min
Year: 1938
Genres: Biography - Drama
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Mickey Rooney, Henry Hull, Leslie Fenton, Gene Reynolds, Edward Norris, Addison Richards, Minor Watson, Jonathan Hale, Bobs Watson, Martin Spellman, Mickey Rentschler, Frankie Thomas, Jimmy Butler, Sidney Miller, Robert Emmett Keane, Victor Kilian, Boys Town Acapella Choir
Directed By: Norman Taurog
PLOT
Against all odds Father Flanagan starts "Boys' Town" after hearing a convict's story. Whitey Marsh comes there. He runs away but, hungry, returns. 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.
Country: U.S.A.
Language: English - Hebrew
Writers: John Meehan (screenplay) and Dore Schary (screenplay) Dore Schary (from an original story by) and Eleanore Griffin (from an original story by) Jack Mintz contributor to screenplay construction (uncredited)
Awards:
1939- Academy Awards, USA (Oscar)
-Best Actor in a Leading Role Spencer Tracy (Spencer Tracy was not present at the awards ceremony. His wife Louise Treadwell accepted the award on his behalf.) (WON)
-Best Writing, Original Story Eleanore Griffin Dore Schary (WON)
-Best Director Norman Taurog (NOMINATED)
-Best Picture (M-G-M). (NOMINATED)
-Best Writing, Screenplay John Meehan Dore Schary(NOMINATED)
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