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Tom Brown's School Days (1940)
Directed by Robert Stevenson
Overview
When private tutor Thomas Arnold becomes headmaster at an English preparatory school for boys, he puts into place a policy of strict punishment against unruliness and bullying. Arnold finds an ally in Tom Brown, a new student who is secretly subjected to abuse by a group of older boys. He eventually plucks up the courage to lead his fellow classmates in an underground rebellion against their tormentors.
Length 86 minutes
Actors
Cedric Hardwicke | Freddie Bartholomew | Jimmy Lydon | Josephine Hutchinson | Billy Halop | Polly Moran | Hughie Green | Ernest Cossart | Alec Craig | Gale Storm | Antoinette Rotche | Lionel Belmore | Barlowe Borland | Rita Carlyle | Richard Clucas | John 'Uh huh' Collum | Harry Duff | Calvin Ellison | Harold Entwistle | Ian Fulton | Forrester Harvey | Cullen Johnson | Calvin Leslie | Peter Madden | Paul Mathews | Frank Mills | Alexander Pollard | Charles Smith | Walter Tetley | Tommy Thompson | Richard West | Leonard Willey | Dick Chandlee