TOM BROWN’S SCHOOLDAYS

Original British 11 inch x 8 1/2 inch Trade Advertisement from Kinematograph Weekly for the 1951 Gordon Parry Drama TOM BROWN’S SCHOOLDAYS, based on the novel by Thomas Hughes and starring John Howard Davies, Robert Newton, John Charlesworth, James Hayter, Michael Hordern, Max Bygraves, Francis De Wolff, Diana Wynyard, Hermione Baddeley, Kathleen Byron, Amy Veness, Brian Worth, Michael Brennan and John Forrest.

John Howard Davies 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.

The Advertisement is in very good condition.