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Lord Jeff is a american film of genre Drama directed by Sam Wood released in USA on 17 june 1938 with Freddie Bartholomew
Lord Jeff (1938)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 17 june 1938
Length 1h25
Directed by Sam Wood
OriginUSA
Themes Films about children
Rating65%
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.
Synopsis
Young "Lord" Geoffrey Braemer (Freddie Bartholomew) is supposedly an English aristocrat. In fact, he is an orphan and willing accomplice to con artists Jim Hampstead (George Zucco) and Doris Clandon (Gale Sondergaard), who took him in when his parents died in a train wreck. 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 Russell-Cotes, 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.Actors
Freddie Bartholomew
(Geoffrey Braemer)
Mickey Rooney
(Terry O'Mulvaney)
Charles Coburn
(Captain Briggs)
Herbert Mundin
(Bosun 'Crusty' Jelks)
Terry Kilburn
(Albert Baker)
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