OBVIOUSLY MADE AS both a companion piece and at the same time a promotional tool designed to create interest in that year's feature film BOYS TOWN (MGM,1938); which of course stars Spencer Tracy.
IN MANY RESPECTS this 11 minute one reeler makes good use of what Walt Disney would exploit a decade and a half later with his DISNEYLAND Television show. In short, both historical background and behind the scenes glimpses of what led up to making the real Boys Town a subject for not one, but two films, MEN OF BOYS TOWN (MGM,1941), the sequel.
PERHAPS THERE WAS indeed yet another reason for choosing to make this CITY OF LITTLE MEN (MGM, 1938). As our late Father, Clement J. Ryan, had told us; there was a mistaken notion about that following the picture BOYS TOWN hit the movie houses. Some believed that Fr. Flanagan's Boys Town was rolling in the $$$$.
WELL OF COURSE, Schultz, that was no truer then than now.
IN MANY RESPECTS this 11 minute one reeler makes good use of what Walt Disney would exploit a decade and a half later with his DISNEYLAND Television show. In short, both historical background and behind the scenes glimpses of what led up to making the real Boys Town a subject for not one, but two films, MEN OF BOYS TOWN (MGM,1941), the sequel.
PERHAPS THERE WAS indeed yet another reason for choosing to make this CITY OF LITTLE MEN (MGM, 1938). As our late Father, Clement J. Ryan, had told us; there was a mistaken notion about that following the picture BOYS TOWN hit the movie houses. Some believed that Fr. Flanagan's Boys Town was rolling in the $$$$.
WELL OF COURSE, Schultz, that was no truer then than now.