Amazon.com video review:
One more terrific film from a terrific year for movies--1939,
the year of Gone with
the Wind, The
Wizard of Oz, and
Stagecoach, among
others--Sam Wood's Goodbye Mr. Chips is a deeply stirring work
starring Robert Donat as the old schoolmaster who looks back upon his
life. Told mostly in flashbacks, the film wraps itself around a
history of an older England as seen through the generations of boys
who pass through Mr. Chips's classroom. Greer Garson is her usual
classy, sexy-intelligent self as Donat's wife, their earlier
courtship one of the film's highlights. Get out the Kleenex for this
one. --Tom Keogh
