Tom Brown's School Days (1940)
Country: US
Technical: bw 86m
Director: Robert Stevenson
Cast: Jimmy Lydon, Cedric Hardwicke, Freddie Bartholomew
Synopsis:
A local squire sends his son to Rugby school in support of the new headmaster, who has instituted some reforming policies to curb the unruly boys. Young Tom is bullied by Flashman, and hindered from saying anything by a cultural conspiracy of silence.
Review:
An oft-filmed classic, owing perhaps to the quaintness of the British public school system, and done as well as most in this version.
Country: US
Technical: bw 86m
Director: Robert Stevenson
Cast: Jimmy Lydon, Cedric Hardwicke, Freddie Bartholomew
Synopsis:
A local squire sends his son to Rugby school in support of the new headmaster, who has instituted some reforming policies to curb the unruly boys. Young Tom is bullied by Flashman, and hindered from saying anything by a cultural conspiracy of silence.
Review:
An oft-filmed classic, owing perhaps to the quaintness of the British public school system, and done as well as most in this version.
Country: US
Technical: bw 86m
Director: Robert Stevenson
Cast: Jimmy Lydon, Cedric Hardwicke, Freddie Bartholomew
Synopsis:
A local squire sends his son to Rugby school in support of the new headmaster, who has instituted some reforming policies to curb the unruly boys. Young Tom is bullied by Flashman, and hindered from saying anything by a cultural conspiracy of silence.
Review:
An oft-filmed classic, owing perhaps to the quaintness of the British public school system, and done as well as most in this version.