A Yank at Oxford
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| Directed by | Jack Conway |
| Produced by | Michael Balcon |
| Written by |
Roland Pertwee John Monk Saunders Leon Gordon Sidney Gilliat Michael Hogan Angus MacPhail John Paddy Carstairs |
| Screenplay by |
Malcolm Stuart Boylan Walter Ferris George Oppenheimer Frank Wead F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| Starring |
Robert Taylor Lionel Barrymore Maureen O'Sullivan Vivien Leigh Edmund Gwenn |
| Music by |
Hubert Bath Edward Ward |
| Cinematography | Harold Rosson |
| Edited by |
Margaret Booth Charles Frend |
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102 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $1,374,000 |
| Box office | $2,736,000 |
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 and stars Robert Taylor, Lionel Barrymore, Maureen O'Sullivan, Vivien Leigh and Edmund Gwenn.
A Yank at Oxford marks Vivien Leigh and Robert Taylor first film appearance together; they would later appear as the romantic lead couple in the remake of Waterloo Bridge (1940). Before this film, Taylor was seen as the "romantic love interest" and thus as a 1930s equivalent to Rudolph Valentino, with men therefore starting to doubt Taylor's masculinity. His casting in this film (by Mayer) was a successful attempt to put paid to such doubts, and dramatically boosted his reputation with both men and women.
A cocky American athlete named Lee Sheridan (Robert Taylor) receives a scholarship to attend Cardinal College, Oxford University in 1937. At first, Lee is reluctant to go to the college owing to his father Dan's (Lionel Barrymore) 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 into getting off the train at the wrong stop. Lee, however, 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. This begins a contentious relationship between them when Lee reports to apologize.
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