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Bookmark this pageGoodbye, Mr Chips (1939)
Director: Sam Wood
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From Time Out Film Guide
With his cane, scarf, mortar-board and perpetual hangdog expression, Robert Donat seemed to embody Neville Chamberlain - 'I have a piece of paper and it's spelt incorrectly. One hundred lines, Master Hitler, or you'll be slippered'. Actually, the movie always was a museum piece, and- if you are in the right mood - a deeply affecting one. Donat's schoolmaster looks back upon his life - his surrogate fatherhood to scores of boys, his marriage to Mrs Miniver, who dies during childbirth - and Olde England passes before our very eyes.Author: ATu
Cast & crew
Director: Sam Wood
Producer: Victor Saville
Cast: Robert Donat, Greer Garson, Terry Kilburn, John Mills, Paul Henreid, Judith Furse, Lyn Harding, Milton Rosmer, Guy Middleton, Nigel Stock full cast
Duration: 113 mins
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