Tom Brown's School Days

Tom Brown's School Days

7.2

Jun 26 1940

1h 26m

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.

Cedric Hardwicke

Cedric Hardwicke

Dr. Thomas Arnold

Freddie Bartholomew

Freddie Bartholomew

East

Jimmy Lydon

Jimmy Lydon

Tom Brown

Josephine Hutchinson

Josephine Hutchinson

Mrs. Mary Arnold