ID

FBW001392      Fiction

Country / Year

USA, 1942

Original Title

A Yank at Eton

Directed by

Norman Taurog

Produced by

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios (MGM) (Loew's, Inc.), Culver City, CA (New York, NY)

Staff

Script: Lionel Houser, Tom Phipps (Based on a story by George Oppenheimer); Based on: George Oppenheimer; Camera: Karl Freund, Charles Lawton, Jr.; Special optical effects: Warren Newcombe; Editing: Albert Akst; Art direction: Cedric Gibbons

Cast

Mickey Rooney (Timothy Dennis); Edmund Gwenn (Justin); Ian Hunter (Roger Carlton); Freddie Bartholomew (Peter Carlton); Marta Linden (Winifred Dennis Carlton); Rita Quigley (Jane Dennis); Alan Mowbray (Mr. Duncan); Peter Lawford (Ronnie Kenvil); Raymond Severn (Earl of Inky Weeld); Tina Thayer (Flossie Sampson); Minna Phillips (M'Dame); Alan Napier (Restaurateur); Terry Kilburn (Hilspeth); Billy Bevan (Tour Guide); Aubrey Mather (Butler); Harry Cording (Bartender); John W. Considine, Jr.

Length

88' / 2421 m

Format

35mm/sw/1:1,37

Abstract

Comedy about Rooney, an American high school boy who is sent to Eton by his stepfather. Rooney doesn't respond too well to the proper ways of the Brits, but, after a few incidents, he becomes friends with Bartholomew and Lawford, as well as a star athlete.

Subject Terms

Anti-Nazi films (US)

Bibliography

- , in: Motion Picture Herald (New York, NY), Vol. 148, Nr. 7, 15.08.1942
- , in: Monthly Film Bulletin (London), Vol. 9, Nr. 106, Oktober, 01.10.1942
- , in: Today's Cinema, Vol. 55, Nr. 4786, 09.10.1942
- , in: Kinematograph Weekly (London), Nr. 1852, 15.10.1942
- Nash, Ray R. / Ross, Stanley R. / Conelly, Robert B. (Ed.): Motion Picture Guide. Chicago, IL: Cinebooks, 1987