A Yank AT Oxford holds the distinction of being the first MGM film to be filmed in England instead of some studio set in Hollywood. This is MGM at it's most typical, a good production and utter blandness in story content. After all the studio didn't want to upset it's American or British audiences.
Robert Taylor is the cocky American student who excels at athletics. He ends up getting a scholarship to study at Oxford and runs into the usual cultural differences that result when you mix the British and those darn Yanks together. Honestly you could write this film in your sleep and considering the six writers I believe I counted in the titles they probably did.
The film if it has any interest at all is seeing Vivian Leigh in an early role before her breakout performance in Gone With The Wind.
An empty film kind of a waste of time.
102 minutes
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