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Release Date: 1938 Cast: Charles Coburn, Freddie Bartholomew, Mickey Rooney
Categories: Movies, Crime Lord Jeff is a 1938 film starring Freddie Bartholomew as a spoiled orphan who gets mixed up with some crooks, but gets set straight by a stint in a school.
Young "Lord" Geoffrey Braemer (Freddie Bartholomew) is supposedly an English aristocrat. In fact, he is a fraud. He is a willing assistant to con artists Jim Hampstead (George Zucco) and Doris Clandon (Gale Sondergaard), who took him in when he was orphaned. He conveniently faints in a jewelry store, distracting the employees and allowing Jim to steal a valuable necklace. However, an astute insurance investigator catches him. He is sent... MORE
Lord Jeff is a 1938 film starring Freddie Bartholomew as a spoiled orphan who gets mixed up with some crooks, but gets set straight by a stint in a school.
Young "Lord" Geoffrey Braemer (Freddie Bartholomew) is supposedly an English aristocrat. In fact, he is a fraud. He is a willing assistant to con artists Jim Hampstead (George Zucco) and Doris Clandon (Gale Sondergaard), who took him in when he was orphaned. He conveniently faints in a jewelry store, distracting the employees and allowing Jim to steal a valuable necklace. However, an astute insurance investigator catches him. He is sent to a mercantile marine school, one of many vocational schools run by Dr. Barnardo's home for orphaned boys, with the warning that if he does not behave himself, he will be transferred to a reformatory.
The school is headed by Captain Briggs (Charles Coburn). Briggs assigns longtime model student Terry O'Mulvaney (Mickey Rooney) to take Geoff under his wing. However, Geoff is not interested in fitting in; he only wants to return to London to be reunited with Doris and Jim. He soon antagonizes all of the other boys, with the sole exception of the irrepressibly cheerful Albert Baker (Terry LESS
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