The 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.
Elenco: 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 , Arthur Aylesworth , King Baggot , Barbara Bedford , George Cooper , Nell Craig , John Hamilton , Claire McDowell , Jay Novello , Phillip Terry , William Worthington , John Wray .