Boys Town (1938)
""No boy is bad, if given a chance!""
ThumbScore
👍 80%audience score Estimated from TMDB user ratings and critic scores, calibrated to Google's former audience score. Google stopped publishing it in 2026.
Critics Score
🎬 90%
(RT: 90%) RT = Rotten Tomatoes (critic reviews). MC = Metacritic (weighted critic average). Critics Score is the average of both.
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Cast
Henry Hull as Dave Morris
Leslie Fenton as Dan Farrow
Gene Reynolds as Tony Ponessa
Edward Norris as Joe Marsh
Addison Richards as Judge
Minor Watson as Bishop
Is Boys Town good?
Most people think so. 80% audience score, estimated from 109 TMDB ratings. Critics agree, scoring it 90%.
Overview
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. Wikipedia ↗
