Tom Brown's Schooldays (1951)

Calificación de los usuarios:

7.2/10   

Director:

Gordon Parry

Escritores:

Thomas Hughes (novel)
Noel Langley (screenplay)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

2 noviembre 1951 (USA)

Género:

Drama | Historia

Frase comercial:

A Thrilling New Motion Picture!

Plot:

A young boy starts at Rugby boarding school. He is tormented by Flashman, the school bully.

Plot Keywords:

School | Rugby | Silence | Boarding School | Hazing

Comentarios de los usuarios:

A right film.

Reparto

John Howard Davies	...	Tom Brown
Robert Newton	...	Dr. Thomas Arnold
John Charlesworth	...	East
James Hayter	...	Old Thomas
John Forrest	...	Flashman
Michael Hordern	...	Wilkes
Max Bygraves	...	Coach Guard
Francis De Wolff	...	Squire Brown
Diana Wynyard	...	Mrs. Thomas Arnold
Hermione Baddeley	...	Sally Harrowell
Kathleen Byron	...	Mrs. Brown
Amy Veness	...	Mrs. Wixie
Brian Worth	...	Judd
Rachel Gurney	...	Mrs. Arthur
Michael Brennan	...	Black Bart

Duración:

93 min

País:

UK

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Negro y Blanco

Relación de Aspecto:

1.37 : 1

Sonido:

Mono (Westrex Recording System)

Clasificación:

USA:Approved (PCA #14842) | USA:Passed (National Board of Review) | Finland:S | Sweden:15 | UK:U

Locaciones de Filmación:

Nettlefold Studios, Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, England, UK

Compañía:

Talisman Productions

Citas:

Tadpole: Ooh you lucky brute!

Conexiones de Película:

Version of Tom Brown's Schooldays (2005) (TV)

A right film.

The film appears to show people who felt they knew what right was and who acted in harmony with that inner conviction , right as the bible describes it to be for the school headmaster reads the parable of seed from the bible and otherwise quotes from it, and appears to be a living example of its precepts in his comportment. His reasonableness is most winsome especially in the scene where he rebukes the younger teacher for lack of respect toward the older teachers, notwithstanding the fact that he agrees with the younger teachers argument, he nonetheless criticises the way he presented it. The compelling invisible force that made people believe that they knew the right they felt was....was ..right and the subsequent belief that good would eventually triumph over bad, evil, naughtiness call it what you like, is undeniable in this film, and if Flashman is symbolic of the axis of evil, then maybe expulsion of them is mankinds only hope. Who will do the expelling? Who decides what is right? Evil? I love films that get you thinking!