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You can watch Boys Town (1938) for free on Kanopy, rent on Apple TV+, or buy on Apple TV+.

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.

A quiet, iron-willed authority radiates from the center of this reformatory, turning a rigid institution into a sanctuary of second chances. The friction between a disciplined mentor and a volatile streetwise thief provides a heartbeat for this soulful character study.

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