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Tom Brown's School Days / Uncle Joe / Jesse James at Bay
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Tom Brown's School Days / Uncle Joe / Jesse James at Bay (1940)
Starring:  Gale Storm, Slim Summerville, Zasu Pitts, William B. Davidson, Dorothy Peterson, Dick Hogan, Cedric Hardwicke, Freddie Bartholomew, Jimmy Lydon, Josephine Hutchinson, Billy Halop, Polly Moran, Hughie Green, Ernest Cossart, Alec Craig, Roy Rogers, George 'Gabby' Hayes, Sally Payne, Pierre Watkin, Ivan Miller, Roy Barcroft
Director:  Joseph Kane, Robert Stevenson, Raymond E. Swartly, Howard M. Railsback
Genre:  Comedy, Drama, Westerns, Musicals, Television
Year:  1940
Studio:  Infinity Ent
Length:  231 minutes
Released:   March 16, 2010
Rating:  NR
Format:  DVD
Misc:  NTSC, Black & White
Language:  English(Original Language)
This DVD is disc 1 of 3 in "Gale Storm Collection"
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SYNOPSIS:

Tom Brown's School Days (1940, 86 min.)
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 bullying. 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 accused of breaking the Rugby code of silence.Based on a novel by Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown's School Days costars Billy Halop of the Dead End Kids and Freddie Bartholomew, a prolific child actor who starred in a number of other period films including David Copperfield and Little Lord Fauntleroy.

Uncle Joe (1941, 55 min.)
Socialite debutante Clare (Gale Storm) worries her well-to-do parents with fast living and a gutter romance with decadent and impoverished painter Paul D'Arcy. In an attempt to smother the embers of their forbidden love, Clare's parents send her away to visit Uncle Joe (Slim Summerville).

Joe is a simple but wise farmer who spends his time inventing all manner of newfangled laborsaving devices while shyly courting spinster Julia (the incomparable comedic actress Zasu Pitts). At first distressed by the folksy gait of Joe's hometown of Baysville, Clare takes to the country when all the local boys, who use to tease her, now come a-courting.

When Julia defaults on her mortgage and her home is threatened with repossession by the bank, Clare, Uncle Joe and the boys rally together to save her house by winning a limerick contest on the radio. Ardor blossoms between Clare and Dick, son of the local banker, while the youngsters also seek a way to awaken Uncle Joe and Julia to their autumnal passion for each other.

Brimming with whimsy and crackerjack performances marinated with mirth, Uncle Joe is a sweet natured and warm slice of hilarity.

Jesse James at Bay (1941, 56 min.)
Jesse James (Roy Rogers), a Robin Hood-like hero, comes to the aid of defenseless Missouri settlers that have been swindled out of their land by the ruthless railroad magnate Phineas Krager (Pierre Watkin). After James robs one of Krager's trains and holds up his bank, Krager plots his revenge by persuading a dead-ringer James look-alike, Clint Burns (Rogers in a dual role), to pose as the outlaw and pillage the unknowing landowners' property.

When word gets out that the real Jesse James has been shot and abandoned by his gang, Burns rides off to finish him off and collect the $10,000 reward for his capture. Not only is Jesse James at Bay one of Roy Rogers' most engaging vehicles, but the supporting cast of "Gabby" Hayes, Roy Barcroft and Gale Storm is consistently impressive.

Plus 1 episode of My Little Margie.




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