Tuesday 4 June 2024

Goodbye, Mr. Chips

a film by Sam Wood
based on a novella by James Hilton

A heartwarming drama starring Robert Donat, in his well-deserved Oscar-winning performance (he beat Clark Gable and Laurence Olivier to it), and Greer Garson in her first movie role.

As I just have learned, Hilton’s 1934 novella, of which I’ve been ignorant until now, had a tremendous success. I guess school teacher was a respected profession back then. The book spawned two feature films (this one was the first) and a number of theatre, radio and television adaptations.

This was the opening film of the cycle James Hilton. Escritor y guionista by Asociación de Cine Vértigo.

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