FREDDIE BARTHOLOMEW.
**TJheßoyJ!ronvßarnardo's," dramatic story of the training of boys for Britain's future Merchant Marine, introduces ; Freddie Bartholomew and Mickey Rooney, companions in "Captains Courageous" and 'The Devil is a Sissy," in entertainingly new characterisations. Freddie portrays a boy, represented %as a scion of nobility by crooks, who' finds regeneration and a new- destiny, when sent to the English training school,, part of the Barnardo Homes .institution in England. Mickey is a7student petty officer, first Freddie's Nemesis, later his friend. Sam Wood, who-:- directed "Navy Blue and Gold," directed ihe.-new picture with rare skill.I,' The desperate, fight between the two ibpys, the great boat race, the mastclimbing contests, and other nautical school .thrills mingle with: human and dramatic, touches. Settings are authentic^and. elaborate. Players, aside from, several -hundred boys playing students,* include Charles Coburn, HerbejrtJMundin,/ Gale Sondergaard, Terry Kilbufn.PeterLawford, Walter Tetley, ari Hd ;U'others.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 3, 5 January 1939, Page 16
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144FREDDIE BARTHOLOMEW. Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 3, 5 January 1939, Page 16
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