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R.C. Sherriff (screenplay) and
Claudine West (screenplay) ...
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28 July 1939 (USA) more
At The Top Of The Year's "Ten Best" - The picture that earns for 1939 a proud place in motion-picture history! more
An aged teacher and former headmaster of a boarding school recalls his career and his personal life over the decades. full summary | full synopsis
Won Oscar. Another 7 nominations more
Oscar Nominees To Number 10 Next Year
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Film Believed To Have Been Lost Is Found in Netherlands
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triumph for MGM British more (68 total)
| Robert Donat | ... | Mr. Chips | |
| Greer Garson | ... | Katherine | |
| Terry Kilburn | ... | John Colley / Peter Colley I / Peter Colley II / Peter Colley III | |
| John Mills | ... | Peter Colley as a young man | |
| Paul Henreid | ... | Staefel (as Paul Von Hernried) | |
| Judith Furse | ... | Flora | |
| Lyn Harding | ... | Wetherby | |
| Milton Rosmer | ... | Chatteris | |
| Frederick Leister | ... | Marsham | |
| Louise Hampton | ... | Mrs. Wickett | |
| Austin Trevor | ... | Ralston | |
| David Tree | ... | Jackson | |
| Edmund Breon | ... | Colonel Morgan (as Edmond Breon) | |
| Jill Furse | ... | Helen Colley | |
| Scott Sunderland | ... | Sir John Colley | |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Leonard Boucher | ... | (uncredited) | |
| Henry Caine | ... | Bit Role (uncredited) | |
| David Croft | ... | Perkins - Greengrocer's boy (uncredited) | |
| Leo de Pokorny | ... | Bit Role (uncredited) | |
| Cyril Frankel | ... | Schoolboy extra (uncredited) | |
| Peter Gawthorne | ... | Army General (uncredited) | |
| Martita Hunt | ... | British Tourist on Bicycle (uncredited) | |
| Simon Lack | ... | Wainwright (uncredited) | |
| Jack Lambert | ... | (uncredited) | |
| John Longden | ... | Raven (uncredited) | |
| Patrick Ludlow | ... | (uncredited) | |
| Guy Middleton | ... | McCulloch (uncredited) | |
| Phyllis Morris | ... | (uncredited) | |
| Cyril Raymond | ... | Teacher (uncredited) | |
| J.H. Roberts | ... | Doctor (uncredited) | |
| Michael Shepley | ... | Teacher (uncredited) | |
| Nigel Stock | ... | John Forrester (uncredited) | |
| Ronald Ward | ... | (uncredited) | |
| Caven Watson | ... | (uncredited) | |
Directed by | |||
| Sam Wood | |||
| Sidney Franklin | (uncredited) | ||
Writing credits | ||
| R.C. Sherriff | (screenplay) and | |
| Claudine West | (screenplay) and | |
| Eric Maschwitz | (screenplay) | |
| James Hilton | (book "Goodbye, Mr. Chips!") | |
Produced by | |||
| Victor Saville | .... | producer | |
Cinematography by | |||
| Freddie Young | (as F.A. Young) | ||
Film Editing by | |||
| Charles Frend | |||
Art Direction by | |||
| Alfred Junge | |||
Production Management | |||
| Harold Boxall | .... | production manager | |
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director | |||
| E.M. Smedley-Aston | .... | assistant director (uncredited) | |
Sound Department | |||
| C.C. Stevens | .... | sound recordist | |
| A.W. Watkins | .... | sound recordist | |
| John W. Mitchell | .... | boom operator (uncredited) | |
Camera and Electrical Department | |||
| Gerry Massy-Collier | .... | assistant camera (uncredited) | |
Music Department | |||
| Richard Addinsell | .... | composer: special music | |
| Louis Levy | .... | musical director | |
Thanks | |||
| Sidney Franklin | .... | grateful acknowledgment | |
| Irving Thalberg | .... | acknowledgment | |
Goodbye Mr. Chips! (USA) (alternative title)
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114 min
1.37 : 1 more
Mono (Western Electric Sound System)
USA:Approved (certificate #5086) | Canada:G (video rating) | USA:Passed (National Board of Review) | Sweden:Btl | Australia:G | Finland:S | Germany:o.Al.
The first film of Judith Furse. more
Revealing mistakes: In a scene where Mr. Chips is climbing a mountain in his attempt to "rescue" Kathy, he passes by a cross marking the spot where someone died that is written in English. He is in the Alps of Austria, however, so the sign should be in German. more
Katherine: It must be tremendously interesting to be a schoolmaster, to watch boys grow up and help them along; to see their characters develop and what they become when they leave school and the world gets hold of them. I don't see how you could ever get old in a world that's always young. more
Referenced in From the Ends of the Earth (1939) more
The Cuckoo and the Nightingale more
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The third in the series of films MGM made in Britain was perhaps their greatest triumph, with a well-deserved Academy Award for Robert Donat, who played Mr Chips over a span of 60 years very convincingly. Always a great actor, Donat was perhaps at his best in this story covering the history of a schoolmaster from his first appearance at the school as a young idealist, through crusty middle age (and a change when he meets charming Greer Garson, in her first screen appearance, stranded up an Austrian mountain) and into his much loved dotage as a kind of human fixture and fittings of Brookfield School.
James Hilton's book is developed here to give not only a view of the English public school system which probably never existed, but to cover issues such as the Great War with some power. The film is extremely touching in places - whether this is because of the acting or the excellent music I'm not quite sure. I do know that this version of the film is streets ahead of the misguided musical version which appeared three decades later with Peter O'Toole in the lead.