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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 30 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: June 28, 2005
- Originally Released: 1951
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Michael Redgrave | |
Performer: | Jean Kent, Nigel Patrick & Wilfrid Hyde-White | |
Featured: | Brian Smith | |
Directed by | Anthony Asquith | |
Story by | Terence Rattigan |
Major Awards:
Cannes 1951 -
Best Actor: Michael Redgrave
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 4.5/5 --
When you have Michael Redgrave giving one of the best performances in cinematic history on top of it all, there's not much else left to say other than: bravo.
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The Lonely Film Critic
Redgrave's stoical, nuanced performance anchors this poignant drama...
Entertainment Weekly
Rating: B --
It's a blues pic for teachers that lays down some hope in the end.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
The role of the retiring master is not an easy one, but a prize in the right hands. Michael Redgrave fills it with distinction.
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Variety
The year's top acting job, beyond any doubt-beyond any doubt of mine, at least-was that of Michael Redgrave as the despairing schoolmaster in The Browning Version, a superior item from Britain.
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Maclean's Magazine
It's a remarkable piece of writing by Terence Rattigan, the great English playwright, and great direction by Anthony Asquith to drag us through such an arid landscape and keep us interested, involved and finally moved
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Urban Cinefile
Worth watching for Redgrave's powerfully detailed performance as the schoolmaster.
Time Out
Product Description:
Andrew Crocker-Harris, "The Crock" as his students call him, knows he isn't loved like the fictional Mr. Chips, but in the span of just over a day he is forced as Robert Burns would say, "to see ourselves as others see us." Michael Redgrave, the father of the British theatrical family and himself a former schoolmaster, brings a quiet resolve to the role of a man coming to terms with the failure of his life. His much younger wife, Jean (Jean Kent), has come to the end of her frustration with his failure to rise in his profession and becomes bitter when illness forces his early retirement. When a small act of kindness by one of his students lets him see how he has never imparted to them his own love of the classics, he begins to reflect on the rest of his life. His marital problems, confessed in terms far less explicit than are common to today, is perhaps even more effective for its verbal restraint.
Anthony Asquith, who directed Redgrave in THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST, takes a successful contemporary play by Terance Rattigan and provides a seamless transition to the screen. Jean Kent strikes just the right note as a woman who, in the name of honesty, has become heartlessly cruel, adding to the pleasure of watching Michael Redgrave's wonderful performance build to its deeply emotional climax.
Anthony Asquith, who directed Redgrave in THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST, takes a successful contemporary play by Terance Rattigan and provides a seamless transition to the screen. Jean Kent strikes just the right note as a woman who, in the name of honesty, has become heartlessly cruel, adding to the pleasure of watching Michael Redgrave's wonderful performance build to its deeply emotional climax.
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