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06/04/1951 Drama 1h 30m
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How could he look on and say nothing ... it was his wife!

Overview

Andrew Crocker-Harris has been forced from his position as the classics master at an English public school due to poor health. As he winds up his final term, he discovers not only that his wife, Millie, has been unfaithful to him with one of his fellow schoolmasters, but that the school's students and faculty have long disdained him. However, an unexpected act of kindness causes Crocker-Harris to re-evaluate his life's work.

  1. Anthony Asquith

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. Michael Redgrave

    Andrew Crocker-Harris

  2. Jean Kent

    Millie Crocker-Harris

  3. Nigel Patrick

    Frank Hunter

  4. Wilfrid Hyde-White

    Frobisher

  5. Bill Travers

    Fletcher

  6. Ronald Howard

    Gilbert

  7. Ivan Samson

    Lord Baxter

  8. Judith Furse

    Mrs. Williamson

  9. Josephine Middleton

    Mrs. Frobisher

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A review by CinemaSerf
Written by CinemaSerf on 2024-02-05
There's a little bit of the "Mr Chips" story in this adaptation of Terence Rattigan's story of life in a once proud English public school. "Crocker-Harris" (Michael Redgrave) has rather stoically and unsympathetically been trying to drum Greek into his classes of largely disinterested buys for many years, but is now to move on after becoming ill. What's fairly clear from the outset is that his wife "Millie" (an on-form Jean Kent) has little but disdain for her rather pedestrian husband, and that she has been a little too friendly with his slightly smarmy colleague "Hunter" (Nigel Patrick). As ...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

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