Search - Tom Brown's Schooldays on DVD

MPAA Rating: NR Content Advisory: Excellent For Children Movie Release: 1951 DVD Release: 02/24/2009 Format: DVD - Black and White - Closed Captioned Audio Tracks: English SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 36 mins Studio: Vci Video Members Wishing: 0 Genres: Drama, Period Film, Melodrama

Tom Brown's Schooldays was the second film version of Thomas Hughes' semiautobiographical novel. John Howard Davies, who'd previously essayed the title role in Oliver Twist, stars as first-year Rugby student Tom Brown. In his efforts to adjust to boarding-school life, Tom must contend with the calculated cruelties of all-around bully Flashman (John Forrest). One of the boy's few allies is new schoolmaster Doctor Arnold (Robert Newton), who believes that discipline can be tempered with kindness, a "radical" notion so far as his colleagues are concerned. Despite the authenticity of its British surroundings, the 1951 version of Tom Brown's Schooldays isn't quite as good as the 1940 Hollywood adaptation. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

John Howard Davies - Tom Brown
Robert Newton - Dr. Arnold
Diana Wynyard - Mrs. Arnold
Francis de Wolff - Squire Brown
Kathleen Byron - Mrs. Brown