Word: musicale
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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GOODBYE, MR. CHIPS. Despite the talent and voice of Petula Clark, this adaptation of James Hilton's classic falls flat as a musical. But Peter O'Toole, as the beloved Mr. Chipping, gives one of the most subtle performances of his career.
He writes about the emotional rather than the metaphysical. He writes about the passionate more than the romantic. And though not wholly unconcerned with the sound of words, he clearly subordinates poetry's musical dimension to the wisdom of the message. Rhythm is there (particularly when he reads), but is...
JIMMY is a $900,000 anachronism, a Hollywood notion (courtesy of Jack L. Warner) of what a Broadway musical is like, drearily familiar from countless Hollywood films of Broadway musicals. It takes consummate ineptitude to make Jimmy Walker dull and his mistress, Betty Compton, even duller.
GOODBYE, MR. CHIPS. Despite the talent and voice of Petula Clark, this adaptation of James Hilton's classic falls flat as a musical. But Peter O'Toole, as the beloved Mr. Chipping, gives one of the most subtle performances of his career.
In the movie. Ryan O'Neil of Peyton Place fame plays the hockey jock, and Ali McGraw (who played a Cliffie in Goodbye, Columbus) plays his musical Cliffie. They meet first in some place called "the Radcliffe Library." then again at a Dunster House musical. Harvard will not allow Paramount...