Plot
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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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
Alec Craig
Old Thomas
Gale Storm
Effie
Antoinette Rotche
Tom Brown's Nanny
Lionel Belmore
Tavern Keeper
Barlowe Borland
Grimsby aka Old Grimey
Rita Carlyle
Maid
Richard Clucas
Boy
John 'Uh huh' Collum
Sidney
Harry Duff
Westcott
Calvin Ellison
Boy
Harold Entwistle
Dustman
Ian Fulton
Old Brodie
Forrester Harvey
Sam the Coachman
Cullen Johnson
Boy
Calvin Leslie
Boy
Peter Madden
Jacob
Paul Mathews
Lexton
Frank Mills
School Porter
Alexander Pollard
Butler
Charles Smith
Diggs
Walter Tetley
Student
Tommy Thompson
Boy
Richard West
Boy
Leonard Willey
Farmer Jenkins
Dick Chandlee
Tadpole Martin
