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.

• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
• Spencer Tracy
• Mickey Rooney
• Henry Hull
• Leslie Fenton
• Gene Reynolds
• Edward Norris
• Addison Richards
• Minor Watson