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Jay Marchant is a Actor, Director, Unit Manager and Assistant Director American born on 7 january 1888 at Tripp County (USA)

Jay Marchant

Jay Marchant
Jay Marchant participated to 16 films (as actor, director or script writer).
Among those, 1 have good markets following the box office.

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Boys Town
Boys Town (1938)
, 1h36
Directed by Norman Taurog
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography
Themes Films about children, Films about religion, L'enfance marginalisée
Actors Spencer Tracy, Mickey Rooney, Henry Hull, Leslie Fenton, Darryl Hickman, Gene Reynolds
Roles Unit Manager
Rating71% 3.5955053.5955053.5955053.5955053.595505
The story opens when a convicted murderer asks to make his confession on the day of his execution. The condemned man is visited by an old friend, Father Flanagan (Spencer Tracy) who runs a home for indigent men in Omaha, Nebraska. When the prison officials suggest that the condemned man owes the state a debt, Father Flanagan witnesses the condemned man's diatribe to prison officials and a reporter that describes his awful plight as a homeless and friendless boy who was a ward in state institutions. After the convicted man asks the officials to leave, Father Flanagan provides some comfort and wisdom. On the train back to Omaha, Father Flanagan is transformed in his humanitarian mission by revelations (echoed in the words) imparted by the condemned man's litany of hardships experienced as a child without friends or family as a ward of the state.