Fighting Father Dunne
"This is His Real-Life Story"
A dedicated priest tries to reform a group of homeless boys in turn-of-the-century St. Louis.
"This is His Real-Life Story"
A dedicated priest tries to reform a group of homeless boys in turn-of-the-century St. Louis.
Pat O'Brien
Father Peter J. Dunne
Darryl Hickman
Matt Davis
Charles Kemper
Emmett Mulvey
Una O'Connor
Miss O'Rourke
Ruth Donnelly
Kate Mulvey
Arthur Shields
Michael O'Donnell
Harry Shannon
Thomas Lee
Joe Sawyer
Steve Davis
Anna Q. Nilsson
Mrs. Olaf Knudson
A dedicated priest tries to reform a group of homeless boys in turn-of-the-century St. Louis.
A young priest, Father Chisholm is sent to China to establish a Catholic parish among the non-Christian Chinese. While his boyhood friend, also a priest, flourishes in his calling as a priest in a more Christian area of the world, Father Chisholm struggles. He encounters hostility, isolation, disease, poverty and a variety of set backs which humble him, but make him more determined than ever to succeed.
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.
Childhood chums Rocky Sullivan and Jerry Connelly grow up on opposite sides of the fence: Rocky matures into a prominent gangster, while Jerry becomes a priest, tending to the needs of his old tenement neighborhood.
A spectacular heist starts to unravel as the crooks take it on the lam.
An attorney defends a hoodlum of murder, using the oppressiveness of the slums to appeal to the court.
A corrupt D.A. with governatorial ambitions is annoyed by an investigative reporter's criticism of his criminal activities and decides to frame the reporter for manslaughter in order to silence him.
After two British Secret Intelligence Service agents are murdered at the hands of a cryptic neo-Nazi group known as Phoenix, the suave agent Quiller is sent to Berlin to investigate.
Newspaper men compete against each other to find a serial killer dubbed "The Lipstick Killer".
Jamie Fitzpatrick and Nona Alberts are two women from opposites sides of the social and economic track, but they have one thing in common: a mission to fix their community's broken school and ensure a bright future for their children. The two women refuse to let any obstacles stand in their way as they battle a bureaucracy that's hopelessly mired in traditional thinking, and they seek to re-energize a faculty that has lost its passion for teaching.
A young woman who has just become engaged has her life completely shattered when she is raped while on her way home from work.