Film · MGM · 1938
Pass it on
Boys Town
73Worth an evening.
The sermon is thick, and those boys still needed a home they could run.
The review
I went in ready to dodge a sermon, and some of it is one. Spencer Tracy plays Father Flanagan, who builds a home for boys who have been thrown out. Mickey Rooney is a boy who does not want the place. They are supposed to govern themselves. That is the work, not a glow around a priest. It is based on a real home.
A house can watch it. I would put it on and tell the kids it is a touch sanctimonious, so they don't swallow the shine. The boys are not props. If we only clap for the famous father, we miss the town those boys are meant to run.
Journal
Keep Boys Town in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 73. Yours can differ.
The glance
Temperance is the thin one.
Is appetite shown and then put down, or are you being trained to want the next one?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
Consider this
It's a Wonderful Life
85 instead of 73
It's a Wonderful Life is still a drama film, and it scores 85 instead of 73. What you gain is temperance: Despair is faced.
The eight
- 8Industry
Father Flanagan's work is the home he builds for thrown-out boys.
- 8Household
The boys are the lives the place is for, and they are not props.
- 7Piety
A priest's conscience founds the home, and the tone runs a bit holy.
- 7Courage
He risks a home that did not exist, and one boy does not want it.
- 8Republic
The boys are meant to govern themselves, which is the town.
- 6Temperance
A boy who wants out is asked to live by the home's rule.
- 6Truth
It rests on a real home, and the sermon sands the hard parts.
- 8Stewardship
What is left is a home boys can run, not only a famous priest.
Where to watch
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Live Historic · Boys Town · 73IMDb
