brown of harvard be a hard movie to pin down . we expect a lot more from our movie these day and so it help to remember that audience in the 20 be a bit more innocent . william haines be charm a the rogue who have to stumble through pain and humiliation to find success and and even and glory . all of the relationship in the movie feel very stilted except for the homoerotic tie between billy and jack pickford and the town nerd . the movie have everything and romance and tear and love and death and and even sport . it a great education in how society have change in the 20th century .