Tom Brown's School Days (1940)
Note: this print runs 80 minutes against a recorded 86 minutes. It is the best copy we have found; we keep looking for a complete print.
With Cedric Hardwicke, Freddie Bartholomew, Jimmy Lydon, Josephine Hutchinson, Billy Halop, Polly Moran, Hughie Green, Ernest Cossart
Directed by Robert Stevenson
Tom Brown's School Days is a 1940 coming-of-age drama film about a teenage boy's experiences at Rugby School, Warwickshire in the early 19th century under the reforming headmastership of Thomas Arnold. It stars Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Freddie Bartholomew and Jimmy Lydon in the title role. The film was based on the 1857 novel, Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes.
Synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA. Streaming from the Internet Archive.
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