Boys Town

No boy is bad, if given a chance!

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DVD Features:

Number of Discs: 2
Rated: Not Rated
Closed captioning available
Run Time: 1 hours, 33 minutes
Video: Color
Released: November 8, 2005
Originally Released: 1938
Label: Warner Home Video
Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
Packaging: Keep Case
Aspect Ratio: Full Frame - 1.33
Audio:

Mono 1.0 English

Performers, Cast and Crew:

Starring		Spencer Tracy
Performer:		Mickey Rooney, Gene Reynolds, Sidney Miller, Henry Hull, Bobs Watson, Tommy Noonan & Frankie Thomas
Directed by		Norman Taurog
Written by		John Meehan & Dore Schary
Composition by		Edward Ward
Story by		Eleanore Griffin
Produced by		John W. Considine Jr.
Director of Photography:		Sidney Wagner

Major Awards:

Academy Awards 1938 - Best Actor: Spencer Tracy

Academy Awards 1938 - Best Original Screenplay: Dore Schary & Eleanore Griffin

Academy Awards 1938 - Special Achievement Awards: Mickey Rooney

Entertainment Reviews:

Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

Jan 21, 2004

Film Threat

Aug 9, 2007

Maclean's Magazine

Jul 22, 2019

TV Guide

Feb 10, 2012

Chicago Reader

Jan 1, 2000

Variety

Mar 26, 2009

EmanuelLevy.Com

Nov 3, 2005

Description by OLDIES.com:

Today they grow up lawless on the streets. Tomorrow they're on Death Row. Father Edward Flanagan vows to break the cycle, putting his life where his faith is and starting a boys' home that becomes a model of hope. Spencer Tracy brings shining inner strength to Flanagan in a performance that made him the first to win consecutive Best Actor Academy Awards. "There is no bad boy," Flanagan insists. But brash troublemaker Whitey Marsh (Mickey Rooney) puts that credo to the test. Nominated for five Academy Awards including Best Picture, this compelling movie earned a Best Original Story Oscar.

Product Description:

The story of Father Flanagan, who battled the courts, the community, and the odds to create a home for boys that society had tossed away. Eleanore Griffin and Dore Schary won Oscars for Best Original story. Academy Award Nominations: 5, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay. Academy Awards: Best Actor--Spencer Tracy, Best Original Story.

Description by Warner Home Video:

Boys Town

Spencer Tracy and Mickey Rooney both won Oscars(R) in 1938 for their work in this touching and inspirational story of Father Flanagan and his young, delinquent charges.

Plot Synopsis:

"Boys Town" is a film classic based on the true story of Father Flanagan, a Catholic priest who established a community in Omaha, Nebraska for troubled youths.
The film stars Spencer Tracy, who won an Oscar for his portrayal of Father Flanagan, and Mickey Rooney as the young Whitey Marsh. The priest's challenge is to tame Whitey, the incorrigible kid brother of a jailed gangster. When Whitey first arrives at the orphanage, he turns it upside down with his street-tough antics. However, grim reality sets in when he loses a boxing match, sees his best pal injured in a car accident, and has extended contact with his brother's low-life criminal friends. In the end, Whitey falls in line with the program and is living proof of Father Flanagan's belief that there are no bad boys -- just bad environments.

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