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.
Michael Redgrave
Andrew Crocker-Harris
Jean Kent
Millie Crocker-Harris
Nigel Patrick
Frank Hunter
Wilfrid Hyde-White
Frobisher
Bill Travers
Fletcher
Ronald Howard
Gilbert
Ivan Samson
Lord Baxter
Judith Furse
Mrs. Williamson
Josephine Middleton
Mrs. Frobisher
Peter Jones
Carstairs
Director
Anthony Asquith
Screenplay
Terence Rattigan
Tagline
"How could he look on and say nothing ... it was his wife!"
Status
Released
Original Language
EN
Production
Javelin Films, J. Arthur Rank Organisation
talisencrw
March 14, 2016
In despicable literary characters such as Ebenezer Scrooge, and here, Michael Redgrave's Andrew Crocker-Harris, it is necessary--perhaps even more so now than ever before--to see the triumph of the human spirit and the soul-cleansing power of redemption and forgiveness (both in others and of ourselves). This is the quintessential document of such a human transformation.
CinemaSerf
February 5, 2024
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 wif...
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