Boys Town (1938)

Synopsis

Cast & Credits

• Cast

  • • Father Edward J. Flanagan

      Spencer Tracy

    • Whitey Marsh

      Mickey Rooney

    • Dave Morris

      Henry Hull

    • Dan Farrow

      Leslie Fenton

    • Tony Ponessa

      Gene Reynolds

    • Joe Marsh

      Edward Norris

    • the judge

      Addison Richards

    • the bishop

      Minor Watson

    • John Hargraves

      Jonathan Hale

    • Pee Wee

      Bobs Watson

    • Skinny

      Martin Spellman

    • Tommy Anderson

      Mickey Rentschler

    • Freddie Fuller

      Frankie Thomas

    • Paul Ferguson

      Jimmy Butler

    • Mo Kahn

      Sidney Miller

    • Burton

      Robert Emmett Keane

    • the sheriff

      Killian, Victor

    • the choir

      Boys Town A Cappella Choir

    • [the warden]

      John Hamilton

    • [Wellington Lane, reporter]

      Roger Converse

    • [judge]

      Walter Young

    • [guard]

      Stanley Blystone

    • [Weasel]

      John Wray

    • [tramp]

      George Cooper

    • [Calateri]

      George Humbert

    • [Jackson, Morning Herald reporter]

      Kane Richmond

    • [warden]

      Orville Caldwell

    • [boy on bannister]

      Sonny Boy Williams

    • [train guard]

      Edward Hearn

    • [Alabama]

      Donald Haines

    • [Young Thunder]

      Bennie Chorre

    • [Hillbilly]

      Murray Harris

    • [doctor]

      Gladden James

    • [nun]

      Barbara Bedford

    • [nun]

      Nell Craig

    • [Rod]

      Al Hill

    • [member of Joe's gang]

      Jay Novello

    • [Red]

      Tommy Noonan

    • [Jimmy]

      Ronald Paige

    • [tailor]

      Kent Rogers

    • [reporter]

      Phillip Terry

    • [newsboy]

      Jimmy Sommerville

    • [newsboy]

      Donald Hull

    • [newsboy]

      Billy Hazard

    • [Slats, prologue]

      Chuck Stubbs

    • [Jackie, prologue]

      A.W. Sweatt

    • [boy]

      Billy McCullough

    • [boy]

      Edwin Brian

    • [boy]

      Don Latorre

    • [boy]

      Jackie Morrow

    • [boy]

      Raymond Kelly

    • [commissioner]

      Nelson Scott

    • [second sister]

      Helen Dickson

    • [third sister]

      Claire Mcdowell

    • [Charley Haines]

      Johnny Walsh

    • [Mr Reynolds]

      Robert Gleckler

    • [Deputy Tim]

      Arthur Aylesworth

    • [Darky]

      Everett Brown

    • [Mex]

      Charles Ramos

    • [governor]

      William Worthington

    • [Butch]

      Wesley Giraud

    • [court officer]

      James Blaine

    • [.]

      St. Luke's Choristers

• Credits

  • Unknown:

    • Directed by

      Norman Taurog

    • ©

      Loew's Incorporated

    • Production Company

      Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

    • Produced by

      John W. Considine Jr

    • [Production Associate]

      Orville O. Dull

    • [Unit Manager]

      Joe Cooke

    • [Unit Manager]

      Jay Marchand

    • [Assistant Director]

      Horace Hough

    • Screen Play by

      John Meehan

    • Screen Play by

      Dore Schary

    • [Contributor to Script Construction]

      Jack Mintz

    • From an original story by

      Dore Schary

    • From an original story by

      Eleanore Griffin

    • Photographed by

      Sidney Wagner

    • Montage Effects by

      Slavko Vorkapich

    • Film Editor

      Elmo Veron

    • Art Director

      Cedric Gibbons

    • Associate [Art Director]

      Urie McCleary

    • Associate [Art Director]

      Edwin B. Willis

    • [Make-up Artist]

      Jack Dawn

    • Musical Score by

      Edward Ward

    • Musical Arrangements by

      Leo Arnaud

    • [Musical Arrangements by]

      Paul Marquardt

    • [Musical Arrangements by]

      Leonid Raab

    • Recording Director

      Douglas Shearer

    • [Technical Adviser]

      Father Edward J. Flanagan

    • [Press Representative]

      Howard Dietz