Tom Brown's School Days (1940)

ALL 06/26/1940 (en) Drama, Family 86 Min
  • Release
    06/26/1940
  • Production
  • Rotten tomato
    72%
  • Original title
    Tom Brown's School Days
  • Original language
    en
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
    -

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.

  1. Robert Stevenson

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Editor



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  1. Cedric Hardwicke

    Dr. Thomas Arnold

  2. Freddie Bartholomew

    East

  3. Jimmy Lydon

    Tom Brown

  4. Josephine Hutchinson

    Mrs. Mary Arnold

  5. Billy Halop

    Flashman

  6. Polly Moran

    Sally Harowell

  7. Hughie Green

    Walker Brooke

  8. Ernest Cossart

    Squire Brown

  9. Alec Craig

    Old Thomas

  10. Gale Storm

    Effie

  11. Antoinette Rotche

    Tom Brown's Nanny

  12. Lionel Belmore

    Tavern Keeper

  13. Barlowe Borland

    Grimsby aka Old Grimey

  14. Rita Carlyle

    Maid

  15. Richard Clucas

    Boy

  16. John 'Uh huh' Collum

    Sidney

  17. Harry Duff

    Westcott

  18. Calvin Ellison

    Boy

  19. Harold Entwistle

    Dustman

  20. Ian Fulton

    Old Brodie

  21. Forrester Harvey

    Sam the Coachman

  22. Cullen Johnson

    Boy

  23. Calvin Leslie

    Boy

  24. Peter Madden

    Jacob

  25. Paul Mathews

    Lexton

  26. Frank Mills

    School Porter

  27. Alexander Pollard

    Butler

  28. Charles Smith

    Diggs

  29. Walter Tetley

    Student

  30. Tommy Thompson

    Boy

  31. Richard West

    Boy

  32. Leonard Willey

    Farmer Jenkins

  33. Dick Chandlee

    Tadpole Martin

Full Cast & Crew

Casts : 33 , Crews : 11

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Tom Brown's School Days (1940) 86 Min

ALL 06/26/1940 (en)
Drama, Family
  • Release 06/26/1940
  • Production
  • Original title Tom Brown's School Days
  • en
  • Revenue0.00

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.

  1. Robert Stevenson

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Editor

  4. C. Graham Baker, Gene Towne

    Producer