Bad Boy

A lawman tries to find the source of a juvenile delinquent's bad behavior.

Cast

Audie Murphy

as Danny Lester

Lloyd Nolan

as Marshall Brown

Jane Wyatt

as Mrs. Maud Brown

James Gleason

as Chief

Stanley Clements

as Bitsy Johnson

Martha Vickers

as Lila Strawn

Rhys Williams

as Arnold Strawn

Selena Royle

as Judge Florence Prentiss

Jimmy Lydon

as Ted Hendry (as James Lydon)

Dickie Moore

as Charlie

Reviews

CinemaSerf

Introducing Audie Murphy as the wayward seventeen year old “Danny”, we find that he has luckily found himself being taken under the wing of the kindly “Brown” (Lloyd Nolan) and his wife “Maud” (Jane Wyatt) who run a Variety Club ranch for other young men who have strayed to the wrong side of the tra...

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