Watch A Yank at Oxford (1938) Free Online

Release Date: 1938

Cast: Lionel Barrymore, Maureen O'Sullivan, Edmund Gwenn, Vivien Leigh, Robert Taylor

Categories: Movies, Comedy-Drama, Black-And-White, Comedy, Drama Film

A Yank at Oxford (1938) is a British film, directed by Jack Conway from a screenplay by John Monk Saunders and Leon Gordon. It was produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer British Studios at Denham Studios. The film was parodied in the 1940 Laurel and Hardy film A Chump at Oxford and remade in 1984 as Oxford Blues. A cocky American named Lee Sheridan (Robert Taylor) receives a scholarship to attend Oxford University. At first, Lee is reluctant to go to the college due to his father's limited income, but he finally does attend. Once in England, Lee brags about his athletic triumphs to Paul Beaumont... MORE

A Yank at Oxford (1938) is a British film, directed by Jack Conway from a screenplay by John Monk Saunders and Leon Gordon. It was produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer British Studios at Denham Studios. The film was parodied in the 1940 Laurel and Hardy film A Chump at Oxford and remade in 1984 as Oxford Blues. A cocky American named Lee Sheridan (Robert Taylor) receives a scholarship to attend Oxford University. At first, Lee is reluctant to go to the college due to his father's limited income, but he finally does attend. Once in England, Lee brags about his athletic triumphs to Paul Beaumont (Griffith Jones), Wavertree (Robert Coote), and Ramsey (Peter Croft) on the train to Oxford. Annoyed, they trick Lee Sheridan into getting off the train at the wrong stop. However, Lee does make his way to Oxford where the students attempt to trick him again, this time into thinking that he is getting a grand reception. Seeing through the deception, he follows the prankster impersonating the Dean and after chasing him is thrown off and ends up kicking the real Dean of Cardinal (Edmund Gwenn) before retreating. Lee considers leaving Oxford but stays on after being convinced by Scatters (Edward LESS