Boys Town (film)

Boys Town is a 1938 film about a priest's work with a group of disadvantaged and delinquent boys in a home that he founded.
 * Directed by Norman Taurog. Written by John Meehan and Dore Schary.

Greater than the imagination of the best writers! taglines

Father Flanagan

 * I know that a mother can take a whip to the toughest boy in the world, and he forgets it because he knows that she loves him.
 * There is no such thing as a bad boy.

Dialogue

 * Freddie Fuller: There's our baseball field... last year one of our players was drafted by the St. Louis Browns.
 * Whitey Marsh: Well, I like the Yankees.
 * Freddie Fuller: You would!


 * Tony Ponessa: If you're a Catholic or a Protestant, you can go right on being one.
 * Whitey Marsh: Well, I'm nothin'.
 * Tony Ponessa: Then, you can go right on being nothin', and nobody cares.


 * Dan Farrow: [panicky, about to die in the electric chair] How much time have I got, Father?
 * Father Flanagan: Eternity begins in forty-five minutes, Dan.
 * Dan Farrow: What happens then?
 * Father Flanagan: Oh, a bad minute or two.
 * Dan Farrow: And after that?
 * Father Flanagan: Well, Dan, that's a question that scientists and philosophers have been asking for a million years.

Taglines

 * Greater than the imagination of the best writers!
 * The life story of a boy who was "born to be hung"!
 * The greatest heart drama of the year.

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 - The Judge
 * Minor Watson - The Bishop