Release Date

26 Jun, 1940

Runtime

01:26: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

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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Actors

Cedric Hardwicke

Freddie Bartholomew

Jimmy Lydon

Josephine Hutchinson

Billy Halop

Polly Moran

Hughie Green

Ernest Cossart

Alec Craig

Gale Storm

Antoinette Rotche

Lionel Belmore

Barlowe Borland

Rita Carlyle

Richard Clucas

John 'Uh huh' Collum

Harry Duff

Calvin Ellison

Harold Entwistle

Ian Fulton

Forrester Harvey

Crew

Robert Stevenson

C. Graham Baker

Gene Towne

Thomas Hughes

Robert Stevenson

Walter Ferris

Frank Cavett

Gene Towne

C. Graham Baker

Nicholas Musuraca

Anthony Collins