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A Murder of Quality ** (1991, Denholm Elliott, Joss Ackland, Glenda Jackson, Billie Whitelaw, David Threlfall, Ronald Pickup) – Classic Movie Review 9661
John le Carré’s 1962 novel (his second) finds holidaying spymaster George Smiley (Denholm Elliott) turning amateur sleuth in the 1950s to investigate the murder of a schoolmaster’s wife at a Dorset public school, Carne School. […]
Child’s Play * (1972, James Mason, Robert Preston, Beau Bridges) – Classic Movie Review 7810
The 1972 drama Child’s Play is the film version of a Broadway play written by Robert Marasco about rivalry and violence in an exclusive Catholic boys’ school. It is a rare misfire from director Sidney […]
Goodbye, Mr Chips ***½ (1969, Peter O’Toole, Petula Clark, Michael Redgrave, Michael Bryant, Alison Leggatt, George Baker, Jack Hedley, Siân Phillips) – Classic Movie Review 6338
Director Herbert Ross’s expensive ($9 million) big-scale musical version of the famous 1939 Robert Donat weepie was a dangerously risky idea in the radical days of 1969 and it duly flopped despite the MGM fanfare […]
Goodbye, Mr Chips **** (1939, Robert Donat, Greer Garson, Paul Henreid, Lyn Harding, Austin Trevor, Terry Kilburn, John Mills) – Classic Movie Review 4140
Director Sam Wood’s vintage 1939 drama Goodbye, Mr Chips puts the spotlight on Robert Donat, who won the Best Actor Oscar for his masterly portrayal of a prim and proper classics teacher at a boys’ boarding […]
Tom Brown’s Schooldays *** (1971, Anthony Murphy, Iain Cuthbertson, Simon Fisher-Turner, Richard Morant) – Classic Movie Review 3527
Director Gareth Davies’s 1971 BBC TV mini-series is an acceptable British remake of the 1940 Hollywood movie Tom Brown’s School Days and the 1951 British version Tom Brown’s Schooldays of the famous old story based on […]
Nicholas Nickleby **** (2002, Charlie Hunnam, Jamie Bell, Christopher Plummer) – Classic Movie Review 2719
Charles Dickens’s tale of a young schoolmaster Nicholas Nickleby (Charlie Hunnam), who joins a band of entertainers to support his family after being deprived of his fortune by his wicked uncle Ralph (Christopher Plummer), is […]
A French Mistress *** (1960, Cecil Parker, James Robertson Justice, Ian Bannen, Raymond Huntley, Irene Handl, Agnès Laurent) – Classic Movie Review 2117
Co-writer/director Roy Boulting’s saucy 1960 comedy A French Mistress stars James Robertson Justice as Robert Martin or ‘Bow Wow’, Cecil Parker as John Crane MA. headmaster of Melbury School, Raymond Huntley as the reverend Edwin Peake, […]
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