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A Yank at Oxford is a 1938 comedy-drama film directed by Jack Conway and starring Robert Taylor, Lionel Barrymore, Maureen O'Sullivan, Vivien Leigh and Edmund Gwenn. The screenplay was written by John Monk Saunders and Leon Gordon. The film was produced by MGM-British at Denham Studios.
Lee Sheridan (Robert Taylor) is a brash young American aristocrat attending Oxford University. His iconoclastic stance doesn't earn him many friends, and he is frequently hazed, but when he...
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- Robert Taylor
- Jack Conway
- Comedy
Lee Sheridan (Taylor), a college track star and the brash son of a small-town newspaper publisher (Lionel Barrymore), is sent to Oxford after a dean gets him into the prestigious university.
A Yank at Oxford: Directed by Jack Conway. With Robert Taylor, Lionel Barrymore, Maureen O'Sullivan, Vivien Leigh. A brash young American aristocrat attending Oxford University gets a chance to prove himself and win the heart of his antagonist's sister.
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- Drama, Romance, Sport
- Jack Conway
- 1938-02-18
John Monk Saunders. Leon Gordon. Michael Hogan. Sidney Gilliat. Angus MacPhail. John Paddy Carstairs. Roland Pertwee. A brash young American aristocrat attending Oxford University gets a chance to prove himself and win the heart of his antagonist's sister.
Throughout the late 1930s, Taylor appeared in films of varying genres including the musicals Broadway Melody of 1936 and Broadway Melody of 1938, and the British comedy A Yank at Oxford with Vivien Leigh. Throughout 1940 and 1941 he argued in favor of American entry into World War II, and was sharply critical of the isolationist movement.
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Lee Sheridan, a young American comes to study at Oxford University, but is instantly disliked by the other students, because of his brash and big-headed attitude. After several scrapes with the college professors, and the wife of the local book seller, he becomes a hero when he joins the rowing club, and coxes the boat crew to beat Cambridge ...
