- HD 1080
- Runtime: 96m.
- Status: Released
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- Languages: en
- Country: United States of America
- Director: Norman Taurog
- Stars: Spencer Tracy, Mickey Rooney, Henry Hull, Leslie Fenton, Gene Reynolds
- keywords: priest, juvenile delinquent, lincoln nebraska, boys' boarding school, nebraska, reform, accident, boys town
- Production_studio: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- Slogan: "No boy is bad, if given a chance!"
- providers: TCM
- The Boys Town is featured in the top rankings of 1938
- #20 in Top Drama Movies of 1938
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.