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Tom Brown's School Days (1940)
Directed by Robert Stevenson
Overview
When private tutor Thomas Arnold (Sir Cedric Hardwicke) becomes headmaster at Rugby, a boy’s preparatory school in England, he puts into place a policy of strict punishment for unruliness and bulying. Arnold finds an ally in Tom Brown (Jimmy Lydon), a new student who is subjected to hazing and abuse by a group of older boys and is pressured by his friends to keep quiet about it. Fed up, he leads his fellow classmates in an underground rebellion against their tormentors. But certain unspoken rules still apply at the school and Brown loses his hero status when he is accussed of breaking the Rugby code of silence.
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