Tom Brown's School Days (1940)
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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 HardwickeDr. Thomas Arnold
Freddie BartholomewEast
Jimmy LydonTom Brown
Josephine HutchinsonMrs. Mary Arnold
Billy HalopFlashman
Polly MoranSally Harowell
Hughie GreenWalker Brooke
Ernest CossartSquire Brown
Alec CraigOld Thomas
Gale StormEffieAntoinette RotcheTom Brown's Nanny
Lionel BelmoreTavern KeeperKeywords
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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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Tom Brown's School Days has a runtime of 86 minutes.
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