Fresh
The role of the retiring master is not an easy one, but a prize in the right hands. Michael Redgrave fills it with distinction.
Variety Staff, Variety
The Browning Version
How could he look on and say nothing ... it was his wife!
1951 · 1h 30m · PASSED
Drama
Directed by
Anthony Asquith
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.
Director and cast
- Anthony Asquith Director
- Michael Redgrave as Andrew Crocker-Harris
- Jean Kent as Millie Crocker-Harris
- Nigel Patrick as Frank Hunter
- Wilfrid Hyde-White as Frobisher (as Wilfrid Hyde White)
- Bill Travers as Fletcher
- Ronald Howard as Gilbert
- Paul Medland as Wilson
- Ivan Samson as Lord Baxter
- Josephine Middleton as Mrs. Frobisher
- Peter Jones as Carstairs
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
88%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Worth watching for Redgrave's powerfully detailed performance as the schoolmaster.
Tom Milne, Time Out
Rotten
What begins as an anti-Goodbye, Mr. Chips ends, thanks to some psychological point stretching, as an imitation of it.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
Rotten
The schoolmaster to whom our pity is drawn is a pretty weak and lukewarm individual, hardly fit to be a teacher of growing boys -- even a teacher of classical languages, which he is.
Bosley Crowther, New York Times
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