Tom Brown's School Days (1940 film) by "The New York Times", "showing some of the pastimes, curricular and otherwise", as the fight scene between Tom Brown and Flashman was captioned. The 1940 film version was released on DVD in 2004, with a cover illustration of Dr. Arnold with Tom Brown and Flashman, as the famed educator admonishes the two after their fight. The film recorded a loss of $110,000. Tom Brown's School Days (1940 film) Tom Brown's School Days is a 1940 coming-of-age drama film about a teenage boy's experiences at Rugby School, Warwickshire in the early 19th century under the reforming headmastership of Thomas Arnold.
Harry Potter influences and analogues of "Wuthering Heights" when Heathcliff is coldly introduced and asks his servant Joseph to bring up wine for him and Lockwood. Snape commands the almost identical line to his servant Wormtail, with Snape described similarly to how Emily Brontë described Heathcliff. The "Harry Potter" series draws upon a long literary tradition of stories set in boarding schools. This school story genre originated in the Victorian era with "Tom Brown's Schooldays", by Thomas Hughes. "Tom Brown's Schooldays" laid down a basic structure which has been widely imitated, for example in Anthony Buckeridge's 1950s "Jennings" books. Both "Tom Brown's Schooldays" and "Harry