A Yank at Eton
Mickey Rooney portrays Tim in this fish-out-of-water tale co-scripted by and based on a story by A Yank at Oxford screenwriter George Oppenheimer.
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DVD-R Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 28 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: May 10, 2012
- Originally Released: 1942
- Label: Warner Archive Collection (MOD)
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Edmund Gwenn, Ian Hunter, Freddie Bartholomew & Mickey Rooney | |
Performer: | Alan Mowbray & Peter Lawford | |
Directed by | Norman Taurog | |
Edited by | Albert Akst | |
Screenwriting by | Lionel Houser & George Oppenheimer | |
Screenplay by | George Oppenheimer & Lionel Houser | |
Composition by | Bronislau Kaper | |
Cinematography by | Karl Freund & Charles Lawton, Jr. | |
Art Direction by | Cedric Gibbons | |
Story by | George Oppenheimer | |
Produced by | John W. Considine Jr. | |
Director of Photography: | Charles Lawton, Jr. & Karl Freund |
Description by OLDIES.com:
High school football star Tim Dennis has big plans for his future: the University of Notre Dame and gridiron glory! Instead, his mother marries an Englishman, and Tim and his sister are summoned to live with their new family across the Atlantic. There, Tim becomes a student at the distinguished British boys' school Eton, and his free-spirited ways run headlong into time-honored tradition.
Product Description:
MGM's A YANK AT ETON follows the same basic formula as the 1938 Robert Taylor starrer A YANK AT OXFORD, with a wartime angle thrown in. This time it's Mickey Rooney as the cocky young American who is shipped off to England to complete his education. Upon his arrival in the hallowed halls of Eton, Timothy Daniels (Rooney), bereft of common courtesy or a sense of tradition, wastes no time alienating the rest of the students. Eventually of course, Timothy knocks the chip off his own shoulder and becomes a model student and top athlete. Freddie Bartholomew, Rooney's costar in so many MGM classics of the 1940s, plays Timothy's upper-classman half-brother Peter Carlton, who applies a little "tough love" to bring our headstrong hero into line; also seen as the school bully is new MGM contractee Peter Lawford, who in 1938 had made his American film debut in the Rooney-Bartholomew starrer LORD JEFF.
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- UPC: 883316482957
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