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Tom Brown's School Days

72 %|Jun 26, 1940|Drama, Family

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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Gene Towne
Screenplay
Robert Stevenson
Additional Dialogue
Thomas Hughes
Novel
Walter Ferris
Screenplay
Robert Stevenson
Director
C. Graham Baker
Producer
C. Graham Baker
Screenplay
Gene Towne
Producer

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