Tom Brown's Schooldays (1951 film) applauded the acting of John Howard Davies, Robert Newton and especially "a standout performance by John Forrest as the sneering, bullying Flashman"; and "Time Out" approved of a "soldily carpentered third screen version of Thomas Hughes' famous Rugby story - atmospherically shot on location in the old school itself." Tom Brown's Schooldays (1951 film) Tom Brown's Schooldays is a 1951 British drama film, produced by Brian Desmond Hurst, directed by Gordon Parry and starring John Howard Davies, Robert Newton and James Hayter. It is based on the novel of the same name by Thomas Hughes. For this version, Rugby School
Tom, Dick and Harry notable instances include the three Galapagos Island tortoises brought back to England aboard by Charles Darwin in 1835, as documented in his book, "The Voyage of the Beagle". They were named Tom, Dick and Harry. It was later discovered that "Harry" was a female and she was renamed "Harriet", and lived in captivity in Australia until her death in 2006, aged 175 years. In "", Robert Louis Stevenson refers to a general muster as calling up Dick, Tom, and Harry. In the television series "3rd Rock from the Sun", the three lead male characters were called Tommy, Dick and Harry.