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Bookmark this pageGoodbye, Mr Chips (1968)
Director: Herbert Ross
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Incredibly bloated remake, with Mrs Chips an ex-showgirl (allowing for some vacuous songs), a continental holiday (allowing for a travelogue wallow), and Herbert Ross (his first film as director), trying to match Wyler's choreographed camera movements on Funny Girl but failing to make them serve any meaningful purpose. The pity of it is that Peter O'Toole sketches an excellent performance amid the debris - angular and desiccated as a stick insect, but endowing the character with both an inside and an outside, so that his metamorphosis from passionless pedant into loveable eccentric is perfectly credible. Good support too, from Redgrave and Bryant in particular, but they're trapped like flies in the sticky confection.Author: TM
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- ron h said...
- Posted on Oct 11 2007 12:19 probably the best version i have ever seen, hope it comes on to DVD in the near future. Previous comments seem to have been made by a stict insect with little or no taste
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Cast & crew
Director: Herbert Ross
Producer: Arthur P Jacobs
Cast: Peter O'Toole, Petula Clark, Michael Redgrave, George Baker, Michael Bryant, Jack Hedley, Sian Phillips full cast
Duration: 147 mins
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