A break in director Frank Borzage’s string of lovers struggling against the world, Young America turns on the bonds of brotherhood formed between two schoolboys living on the edge of society and the law. Borzage invests their friendship with chaste ardor and a moving sincerity that makes up for the film’s more didactic pronouncements in defense of progressive-minded juvenile courts.
Production: Fox Film Corp. Distribution: Fox Film Corp. Producer: Frank Borzage. Director: Frank Borzage. Based on the play by John Frederick Ballard. Screenwriter: William Conselman. Cinematographer: George Schneiderman. Art Director: Duncan Cramer. Editor: Margaret V. Clancey. With: Spencer Tracy, Doris Kenyon, Tommy Conlon, Ralph Bellamy. 35mm, b/w, 71 min.
