
About the film

based on novel or book boarding school bully 19th century
Tom Brown's School Days
Release Date: June 26, 1940
Year | : | 1940 |
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Genres | : | Drama, Family |
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Director | : | Robert Stevenson |
Producers | : | C. Graham Baker, Gene Towne |
Writers | : | Walter Ferris, C. Graham Baker, Frank Cavett, Gene Towne, Thomas Hughes |
RunTime | : | 86 mins. |
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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