Barlowe Borland

The Informer -- Winner of four Academy Awards, this powerful and suspenseful drama tells the story of a hard-drinking Irish man who betrays his wanted friend for a mere twenty pounds during the Irish Rebellion of 1922.

Open the champagne! Put silk sheets on the guest-room beds! Princess Victoria Wilomirska and Baron Nicholas Prax are coming for the weekend. Who are they? My dear, they're real live European aristocrats. With titles. They don't have a dime, of course - but, oh the social sensation! In a romantic romp based in part on Noel Coward's Tonight at 8:30, Norma Shearer is the princess and Melvyn Douglas the baron, a ne'er-do-well making his living as a professional guest in the homes of awe-struck Americans. But when the two fall in love and marry, the jig is up. It seems the baron's hostesses much preferred him single. Could it be that one of these pampered patricians will have to get...a job?

When Thomas Arnold (Cedric Hardwicke) becomes headmaster of Rugby prep school, he attempts to reform the delinquent student body, including young Tom Brown (Jimmy Lydon), who becomes the target of a bully (Billy Halop) in this coming-of-age tale based on a 19th-century novel by Thomas Hughes. Brown befriends fellow underclassman East (Freddie Bartholomew), but an impending schoolyard fight with Brown's tormentor comes between the two buddies.

Based on novel by Thomas Hughes the story of Tom Brown attending the Rugby School in England and the culture of the school as the new headmaster tries to get it under control.