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...Browning Version. Britain's Michael Redgrave, as a Mr. Chips-in-reverse, in Playwright Terence Rattigan's story of an unloved master on his way out of an English public school (TIME...
...Browning Version. Britain's Michael Redgrave as a Mr. Chips-in-reverse, in Playwright Terence Rattigan's story of an unloved master on his way out of an English public school (TIME...
...Browning Version (J. Arthur Rank; Universal-International) is Playwright Terence (The Winslow Boy) Rattigan's own adaptation of his one-acter about a Mr. Chips-in-reverse, an unloved, dried-up academic tyrant on the way out of an English public school after 18 years. Like the play, the film daubs life liberally with greasepaint. But it is still a moving story, and lends British support to the Hollywood slogan that movies are better than ever-especially when adapted with care from successful plays or novels...
...simple act of kindness changes The Crock's life. A pupil (Brian Smith) astonishes him by presenting a parting gift, a copy of the Agamemnon in the Robert Browning translation. This gesture pierces The Crock's outer crust and strikes an emotional gusher. With the help of Rattigan's facile plotting, it leads to the wife's comeuppance at the hands of her lover and, finally, to a rebellious upsurge of self-respect in The Crock...
...movie improves on the play by widening its view of the school's life and atmosphere and enabling Rattigan to dramatize incidents that the stage cramped him into reporting at secondhand. Such minor characterizations as The Crock's young replacement (Ronald Howard, son of the late Leslie Howard), Actor Smith's sympathetic pupil and Actor Hyde White's hypocritical headmaster seem fuller than before, and are skillfully played. Most to its credit, the film gets up close to a superb piece of acting by Michael Redgrave, who makes the schoolmaster's inner suffering as vivid...