Tom Brown's School Days

Tom Brown's School Days (1940)


  • Genre: Drama, Family
  • Release Date: 1940-06-26
  • User Rating: 7.2/10 from 11 ratings
  • Runtime: 1h 26min
  • Language: English
  • Production Country: United States of America
  • Director: Robert Stevenson
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From 11 Ratings

Summary

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.

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  • Cedric Hardwicke

    as Dr. Thomas Arnold
  • Freddie Bartholomew

    as East
  • Jimmy Lydon

    as Tom Brown
  • Josephine Hutchinson

    as Mrs. Mary Arnold
  • Billy Halop

    as Flashman
  • Polly Moran

    as Sally Harowell
  • Hughie Green

    as Walker Brooke
  • Ernest Cossart

    as Squire Brown
  • Alec Craig

    as Old Thomas
  • Gale Storm

    as Effie
  • Antoinette Rotche

    as Tom Brown's Nanny
  • Lionel Belmore

    as Tavern Keeper
  • Barlowe Borland

    as Grimsby aka Old Grimey
  • Rita Carlyle

    as Maid
  • Richard Clucas

    as Boy
  • John 'Uh huh' Collum

    as Sidney
  • Harry Duff

    as Westcott
  • Calvin Ellison

    as Boy
  • Harold Entwistle

    as Dustman
  • Ian Fulton

    as Old Brodie
  • Forrester Harvey

    as Sam the Coachman
  • Cullen Johnson

    as Boy
  • Calvin Leslie

    as Boy
  • Peter Madden

    as Jacob
  • Paul Mathews

    as Lexton
  • Frank Mills

    as School Porter
  • Alexander Pollard

    as Butler
  • Charles Smith

    as Diggs
  • Walter Tetley

    as Student
  • Tommy Thompson

    as Boy
  • Richard West

    as Boy
  • Leonard Willey

    as Farmer Jenkins
  • Dick Chandlee

    as Tadpole Martin
Writing Thomas Hughes Novel
Writing Walter Ferris Screenplay
Writing Frank Cavett Screenplay
Writing Gene Towne Screenplay
Crew Robert Stevenson Additional Dialogue
Directing Robert Stevenson Director
Production C. Graham Baker Producer
Writing C. Graham Baker Screenplay
Production Gene Towne Producer
Camera Nicholas Musuraca Director of Photography
Sound Anthony Collins Original Music Composer

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