Father Flannagan said there was no such thing as a bad boy and founded Boys Town to prove his theory. With only one test case, but a real hard case, priest Cesar Romero has that particular theory tested by young Roger Mobley.
Mobley was 14 at the time he made The Runaway and he had done a similar role as a Mexican street kid in Dime With A Halo. Here he's an orphan urchin who sleeps in a room in a barn and hustles for whatever money he can make. All the time he's looking for his father.
He stows away in a truck driven by Father Cesar Romero, but gets stopped at the border crossing. The officials of both sides of the border give him over in custody to Romero.
Oh, there was another stowaway on the truck, a young puppy that Mobley took with him that turns out to be a greyhound. One fast greyhound to boot. The dog turns out to be Mobley's salvation.
The Runaway is a heartwarming boy and his dog story shot completely on location in Tijuana, San Diego and many points in between in the USA and Mexico. On the shelf for 45 years, it just made its debut on television on TCM.
I wonder what Roger Mobley must be thinking, 45 years to see what could be his best performance as a juvenile.
Mobley was 14 at the time he made The Runaway and he had done a similar role as a Mexican street kid in Dime With A Halo. Here he's an orphan urchin who sleeps in a room in a barn and hustles for whatever money he can make. All the time he's looking for his father.
He stows away in a truck driven by Father Cesar Romero, but gets stopped at the border crossing. The officials of both sides of the border give him over in custody to Romero.
Oh, there was another stowaway on the truck, a young puppy that Mobley took with him that turns out to be a greyhound. One fast greyhound to boot. The dog turns out to be Mobley's salvation.
The Runaway is a heartwarming boy and his dog story shot completely on location in Tijuana, San Diego and many points in between in the USA and Mexico. On the shelf for 45 years, it just made its debut on television on TCM.
I wonder what Roger Mobley must be thinking, 45 years to see what could be his best performance as a juvenile.