Directed by Norman Taurog
A second Best Actor Oscar—earned one year after the first—crowned Tracy’s performance as crusading Father Flanagan, founder of the titular, renowned boarding school for delinquent boys. Tracy’s rock-steady presence opposite unruly Mickey Rooney, sounded a note that would reverberate for the rest of his career: that of the reassuring, long-suffering morally centered man with strength enough to spare for others.
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corp. Producer: John W. Considine, Jr. Screenwriter: John Meehan, Dore Schary. Cinematographer: Sidney Wagner. Editor: Elmo Veron. Cast: Spencer Tracy, Mickey Rooney, Henry Hull, Leslie Fenton, Gene Reynolds.
35mm, b/w, 93 min.
