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18 February 1938 (USA)
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Here's The Yankee Clipper Himself ! A two-fisted terror from the States . . . who landed in England with a chip on his shoulder . . . but let a blue-eyed beauty walk off with his heart ! Bob Taylor's Biggest Picture Hit !
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Lee Sheridan, a young American comes to study at Oxford University, but is instantly disliked by the other students...
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(Cast overview, first billed only) | Robert Taylor | ... | Lee Sheridan |
 | Lionel Barrymore | ... | Dan Sheridan |
 | Maureen O'Sullivan | ... | Molly Beaumont |
 | Vivien Leigh | ... | Elsa Craddock |
 | Edmund Gwenn | ... | Dean of Cardinal |
| Griffith Jones | ... | Paul Beaumont |
| C.V. France | ... | Dean Snodgrass |
| Edward Rigby | ... | Scatters |
| Morton Selten | ... | Cecil Davidson, Esq. |
| Claude Gillingwater | ... | Ben Dalton |
| Tully Marshall | ... | Cephas |
| Walter Kingsford | ... | Dean Williams |
| Robert Coote | ... | Wavertree |
| Peter Croft | ... | Ramsey |
| Noel Howlett | ... | Tom Craddock |
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USA:102 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (Western Electric Sound System)
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Finland:K-16 |
USA:Approved (PCA #4009)
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The first feature film of Jon Pertwee.
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Featured in Vivien Leigh: Scarlett & Beyond (1990) (TV)
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Rule Britannia
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A YANK AT OXFORD offers a quaint version of Oxford academia in which days are spent boating on the river or running on the track rather than sitting in a stuffy classroom with a textbook the size of a housebrick; a world in which students wear suits and smoke pipes, and flee for the back door of the pub whenever a professor is seen.
Robert Taylor plays the conceited but likeable 'Yank' of the title in this typical 'fish out of water' movie that starts strongly before rambling a little as it concentrates on the animosity he encounters from another student (Griffith Jones, giving a solid performance). Taylor's a little too old for the part, but still has the boyish good-looks that faded so badly in the Forties. A flighty Vivien Leigh and a pretty Maureen O'Sullivan both look young and fresh, and add a little brightness to the fusty old halls of academia.
The movie offers a picture of a pre-World War II world that perhaps never existed, although it would be nice to believe that it did. Either way, it's a pleasant way to lose yourself from the modern world for 90 minutes.