Tom Brown's School Days
Tom Brown's School Days

Tom Brown's School Days

1940-06-26| 86 min

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.

Genres

DramaFamily

Cast

Cedric Hardwicke

Cedric Hardwicke

Freddie Bartholomew

Freddie Bartholomew

Jimmy Lydon

Jimmy Lydon

Josephine Hutchinson

Josephine Hutchinson

Billy Halop

Billy Halop

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