Bad Boy (1949 film)
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Bad Boy is a 1949 film starring Audie Murphy
in his first leading role. It was directed by Kurt Neumann.
In the film, Murphy plays Danny Lester, a hardened juvenile delinquent sent away by a judge (Selena Royle
) to a Variety Clubs Boys Ranch in Texas run by Marshall Brown (Lloyd Nolan
) and his wife Maud (Jane Wyatt
) where the couple reform teenage boys, dozens of whom live on the ranch. Most of the boys adapt to life at the ranch successfully, but Danny resists all efforts at socializing him and plots his escape with the aid of a partner in crime on the outside.
Despite having been a decorated combat veteran five years previously, Murphy convincingly played a youthful teenager in the film.
To the end of the film is appended producer Paul Short's acknowledgement thanking Variety Clubs International, "which has 8,000 members—representing 17,000 theatres and is operating 100 charitable institutions in 43 cities and has expended twenty-two million dollars benefitting [sic] five million underprivileged children."
The ranch scenes were not filmed on the actual Variety Clubs ranch in Texas that inspired the film, but instead in Thousand Oaks, California
.
Audie Murphy
Audie Leon Murphy was a highly decorated and famous soldier. Through LIFE magazine's July 16, 1945 issue , he became one the most famous soldiers of World War II and widely regarded as the most decorated American soldier of the war...
in his first leading role. It was directed by Kurt Neumann.
In the film, Murphy plays Danny Lester, a hardened juvenile delinquent sent away by a judge (Selena Royle
Selena Royle
Selena Royle was an American stage, television and film actress.-Early life and career:Born in New York City, Royle's parents were playwright Edwin Milton Royle and actress Selena Fetter . She had an older sister Josephine Fetter Royle . She turned to acting despite the objections of her parents...
) to a Variety Clubs Boys Ranch in Texas run by Marshall Brown (Lloyd Nolan
Lloyd Nolan
Lloyd Benedict Nolan was an American film and television actor.-Biography:Nolan was born in San Francisco, California, the son of Margaret and James Nolan, who was a shoe manufacturer...
) and his wife Maud (Jane Wyatt
Jane Wyatt
Jane Waddington Wyatt was an American actress perhaps best known for her role as the housewife and mother on the television comedy Father Knows Best, and as Amanda Grayson, the human mother of Spock on the science fiction television series Star Trek...
) where the couple reform teenage boys, dozens of whom live on the ranch. Most of the boys adapt to life at the ranch successfully, but Danny resists all efforts at socializing him and plots his escape with the aid of a partner in crime on the outside.
Despite having been a decorated combat veteran five years previously, Murphy convincingly played a youthful teenager in the film.
To the end of the film is appended producer Paul Short's acknowledgement thanking Variety Clubs International, "which has 8,000 members—representing 17,000 theatres and is operating 100 charitable institutions in 43 cities and has expended twenty-two million dollars benefitting [sic] five million underprivileged children."
The ranch scenes were not filmed on the actual Variety Clubs ranch in Texas that inspired the film, but instead in Thousand Oaks, California
Thousand Oaks, California
Thousand Oaks is a city in southeastern Ventura County, California, in the United States. It was named after the many oak trees that grace the area, and the city seal is adorned with an oak....
.