A Yank at Eton

A Yank at Eton is an American comedy/drama film. It was the 1942 sequel to the 1938 A Yank at Oxford. All of it was filmed in the United States and none of it at Eton. It tells the tale of a rich, wild, cocky youth (Rooney) from an elite American school who has to move to England, where he attends the elite Eton College.^[1]

Much of the storyline relates to the misunderstandings arising from differences between the two countries' cultures, customs and language. At first these cause the boy anger and confusion and the film caricatures English manners and behavior as snobbish and stuffy. But in due course he settles down, stops being rebellious and comes to realize that, beneath the different habits and views, "Yanks" and "Limeys" have basic values in common and can get along when they have to.

The propaganda intent, as U.S. troops poured into the U.K. to join World War II in 1942, was evidently to show that Americans and Britons could set aside their superficial differences and pull together in the common cause of the war effort.

The film has the Eton boating song as its theme tune (played at a faster tempo than usual), though no boating is shown in the film.

Cast

• Mickey Rooney as Timothy Dennis
• Edmund Gwenn as Headmaster Justin
• Ian Hunter as Roger Carlton
• Freddie Bartholomew as Peter Carlton
• Marta Linden as Winifred Dennis Carlton
• Juanita Quigley as Jane "The Runt" Dennis
• Alan Mowbray as Mr. Duncan
• Peter Lawford as Ronnie Kenvil
• Raymond Severn as Isaac "Inky" Weeld

References

1. ^ John Walker (ed.), Halliwell's Film & Video Guide, HarperCollins, 2000.

External links

• A Yank at Eton at the Internet Movie Database