Fighting Father Dunne

This Is His Real-Life Story

St. Louis, 1905: Parish priest Father Dunne becomes aware of the plight of the city's newsboys, living on pennies and often homeless, and resolves to help them. Through inspired finagling and the gift of the blarney, he organizes a sort of 'co-op' orphanage for increasing numbers of boys. Then he's faced with the tougher problem of stopping the escalating violence in inter-paper rivalry for 'good corners'...

Direction

Ted Tetzlaff

Screenplay

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William Rankin

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Martin Rackin

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Frank Davis