When a death row prisoner tells him he wouldn't have led a life of crime if only he had had one friend as a child, Father Edward Flanagan decides to take action. An advocate of child rights and an opponent of the severe approach to juvenile delinquency at the time, Flanagan genuinely believes that there is no such thing as a bad boy. Starting with just a few boys in a rented house, Father Flanagan eventually establishes Boys Town on 200 acres of land 10 miles outside of Omaha, Nebraska. Much of the film focuses on Flanagan's attempts to moxia.cc influence one boy, Whitey Marsh, who will become a hoodlum if he doesn't change his ways. When Whitey is implicated in a bank robbery, it puts all of Boys Town at risk. Throughout it all Flanagan has to fight prejudice in those who believe delinquents should just be locked up an[ZiYuantun.Com]d the never-ending shortage of money to accomplish his goals. 译文(2): 当一个死囚告诉他，如果他小时候只有一个朋友，他就不会走上犯罪的道路时，爱德华 · 弗拉纳根神父决定采取行{资源屯-ziyuantun.com}。弗拉纳根是儿童权利的倡导者，也是当时严厉打击青少年犯罪的反对者，他真心相信世上没有坏男孩这回事。弗拉纳根神父从租来的房子里的几个男孩开始，最终在内布拉斯加州奥马哈市外10英里的200英亩土地上建立了男孩镇。影片的大部分内容都集中在弗拉纳根试图影响一个名叫怀蒂 · 马什(Whitey Marsh)的男孩，如果他不改变自己的行为方式，他就会变成一个流氓。当 Whitey 被卷入一起银行抢劫案时，整个男孩镇都处于危险之中。在整个过程中，弗拉纳根不得不与那些认为不良少年应该被关起来的人的偏见以及为实现他的目标而永无止境的资金短缺作斗争。
