Genres
Tom Brown's School Days
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.
Key Crew
Director: Robert Stevenson
Producer: C. Graham Baker, Gene Towne
Screenplay: Walter Ferris, Frank Cavett, Gene Towne, C. Graham Baker
Director of Photography: Nicholas Musuraca
Top Cast
Cedric Hardwicke
Dr. Thomas Arnold
Freddie Bartholomew
East
Jimmy Lydon
Tom Brown
Josephine Hutchinson
Mrs. Mary Arnold
Billy Halop
Flashman
Polly Moran
Sally Harowell
Hughie Green
Walker Brooke
Ernest Cossart
Squire Brown
