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The Freshman's Finish

1931 · 21 min

A breezy, silly campus romp where rivalries and pranks matter more than classes, played for easy laughs.

Directed by
William Watson
Genres
Comedy
Starring
Carlyle Moore Jr., Helen Mann, Eddie Tamblyn
Overview
At one of those typical movie colleges where there are no classes, the co-eds are parading around in their bathing suits, while the freshmen and sophmores concentrate on higher things, like the motorboat race. So fierce is their rivalry that dean Jack Duffy decrees that the winner of the race and his classmates get to go to the dance, while the losers are barred. To prevent Carlyle Moore Jr. From winning, the sophmores force him to torment beat cop Vernon Dent and get thrown in jail. Will their perfidy prevail, and 30-year-old student Vera Steadman have to dance with a sophmore?

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Directed by
William Watson
Genres
Comedy
Starring
Carlyle Moore Jr., Helen Mann, Eddie Tamblyn
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    brisk, 3 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
    Attention
    background-friendly, 1 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
    Themes
    • sport
    • rebellion
    Places
    • school
    Era
    contemporary
    Audience
    family
    Form
    None
    Content intensity
    • Gore none
    • Language none
    • Violence mild
    • Sex mild
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    Action3
    Horror0
    Humour6
    Realism4
    Romance2
    Tension2
    Darkness1
    Complexity1
    Emotional weight1

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    Details

    Genres
    comedy
    Directed by
    William Watson
    Starring
    Carlyle Moore Jr., Helen Mann, Eddie Tamblyn, Vera Steadman, Ronald R. Rondell, Jack Duffy, Vernon Dent
    Runtime
    21 min
    Country
    United States of America

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