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The compelling 1962 British realist drama film Term of Trial is about a student (Sarah Miles) who develops a crush on her schoolteacher (Laurence Olivier), leading him into serious trouble. ‘I always knew she was […]
Director Elliott Nugent’s 1942 Warner Bros black and white screwball comedy The Male Animal delightfully pairs Henry Fonda and Olivia de Havilland, actors usually more at home in serious dramas. Fonda stars as Tommy Turner, a […]
Martin Ritt’s 1974 drama film Conrack stars Jon Voight as real-life Pat Conroy, an idealistic young white English teacher at a rural South Carolina all-black elementary school. Director Martin Ritt’s 1974 drama Conrack stars Jon […]
Director Lewis Seiler’s 1940 Flight Angels offers good nostalgia for wartime flying, pre-war in America’s case, and these are the brisk, cheery stewardesses (Jane Wyman, Virginia Bruce) and capable, brave pilots (Dennis Morgan, Wayne Morris) […]
Director Robert Wise’s 1953 romantic drama So Big, the desultory remake of the 1932 semi-classic So Big, based on the Pulitizer Prize novel by Edna Ferber, is thin, soapy and over-extended. The cast is good […]
Director Mario Zampi’s daftly entertaining 1960 British comedy Bottoms Up! stars Jimmy Edwards as the irrepressible and incorrigible Professor Jim Edwards, dodgy headmaster of Chiselbury School, and he brightens this rather creaky, over-extended big-screen adaptation […]
Peter Sellers directs himself in the 1961 British comedy Mr Topaze, starring in an old role previously played by John Barrymore in Topaze back in 1933, as an upright French school teacher fired when he […]