The Browning Version

This movie is quite good, though it starts off a bit sluggishly and is talky and in black and white and is a serious character study and nobody wrenches off anybody else's head amidst a fountain of gore.Michael Redgrave's performance is almost all interior.

Terence Rattigan adapted his acclaimed one-act play about a humorless professor at a British school for boys realizing some awful truths about his life on the eve of his retirement from the institution: his embittered wife holds him in contempt (and has been carrying on an affair with one of his fellow teachers), while the headmaster of the school cannot wait to sweep him under the carpet. Michael Redgrave gives great shading to this lanky man with the puny spirit though, at times, the actor sounds as if he's just swallowed John Gielgud, he is nothing short of fascinating to watch, even in the climactic moments when this adaptation becomes a curiously showy piece of grandstanding for the character.

I can only add my own voice to the chorus of approval for this timeless piece. Terence Rattigan has adapted and enlarged his successful one-act play of 1948 and it has been taken out of the proscenium arch.

I thought Virginia Woolf was one of the best dramatic films about education ever made. And, of course, Goodbye, Mr Chips is THE best education film ever made.

Never really having been a fan of Michael Redgrave, and I've seen quite a lot of his films, this is clearly the missing link for me. I've generally found him to be a bit dull in the past but this performance of Crocker-Harris points the way to why he was so highly regarded by others.

It has taken me 20 years to come across this movie, what can i say.. The wait was worth while!

Andrew Crocker-Harris, a teacher in a British public school, is approaching retirement. This is not, however, a sentimental "inspirational teacher" film like "Goodbye Mr Chips".

It is a lousy remake of what was a superb original film.Certain films have a time and place and this one belongs in a post war grammar/private school and not in a current comprehensive school.

This is remake of "The Browning Version", great movie of Anthony Asquith. Here Michael Redgrave is replaced with one of my favorite British actors, Albert Finney.