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264:, and is forced into retirement by his increasing ill health. The film, in common with the original stage play, follows the schoolmaster's final two days in his post, as he comes to terms with his sense of failure as a teacher, a sense of weakness exacerbated by his wife's infidelity and the realisation that he is despised by both pupils and staff of the school. 285:
Rattigan extends the screenplay far from his own one-act play, which ends with Crocker-Harris's tearful reaction to Taplow's gift. Therefore, the play ends well before Crocker-Harris's farewell speech to the school; the film shows the speech, in which he discards his notes and admits his failings, to
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be received with enthusiastic applause and cheers by the boys. The film ends with a conversation between Crocker-Harris and Taplow, and the suggestion that Crocker-Harris will complete his translation of the
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Rattigan and Asquith encountered a lack of enthusiasm from producers to turn the play into a film until they met
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The emotional turning point for the cold Crocker-Harris is his pupil Taplow's unexpected parting gift,
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Apparently a description of Menelaus's despair after his abandonment by Helen, the lines were
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played it instead. (Kent often stepped into roles originally envisioned for Lockwood.)
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in 1950 and generally released in April, 1951. The school exteriors were filmed
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The Greek text that appears on the blackboard in Crocker-Harris's classroom is
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was originally meant to play the role of Millie but turned down the part.
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originated the role on stage but turned down the film role.
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Index


Anthony Asquith
Terence Rattigan
The Browning Version
Terence Rattigan
Earl St. John
Michael Redgrave
Jean Kent
Nigel Patrick
Desmond Dickinson
John D. Guthridge
Arnold Bax
stock music
General Film Distributors
Universal-International
drama
play of the same name
Terence Rattigan
Anthony Asquith
Michael Redgrave
filmed again
Albert Finney
Classics
master
public school
Robert Browning
Agamemnon
Michael Redgrave
Jean Kent
Nigel Patrick

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