Tom Brown's School Days
1940When 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.
Acted in
Cedric Hardwicke
as Dr. Thomas Arnold
Freddie Bartholomew
as East
Jimmy Lydon
as Tom Brown
Josephine Hutchinson
as Mrs. Mary Arnold
Billy Halop
as Flashman
Polly Moran
as Sally Harowell
Hughie Green
as Walker Brooke
Ernest Cossart
as Squire Brown
Alec Craig
as Old Thomas
Gale Storm
as Effie
Antoinette Rotche
as Tom Brown's Nanny
Lionel Belmore
as Tavern Keeper
Barlowe Borland
as Grimsby aka Old Grimey
Rita Carlyle
as Maid
Richard Clucas
as Boy
John 'Uh huh' Collum
as Sidney
Harry Duff
as Westcott
Calvin Ellison
as Boy
Harold Entwistle
as Dustman
Ian Fulton
as Old Brodie
Forrester Harvey
as Sam the Coachman
Cullen Johnson
as Boy
Calvin Leslie
as Boy
Peter Madden
as Jacob
Paul Mathews
as Lexton
Frank Mills
as School Porter
Alexander Pollard
as Butler
Charles Smith
as Diggs
Walter Tetley
as Student
Tommy Thompson
as Boy
Richard West
as Boy
Leonard Willey
as Farmer Jenkins
Dick Chandlee
as Tadpole Martin