1951 · drama · rattigan · school
The Browning Version
Directed by Anthony Asquith1h 30m1951
Andrew Crocker-Harris has been forced from his position as the classics master at an English public school due to poor health. As he winds up his final term, he discovers not only that his wife, Millie, has been unfaithful to him with one of his fellow schoolmasters, but that the school's students and faculty have long disdained him. However, an unexpected act of kindness causes Crocker-Harris to re-evaluate his life's work.
Our read: The Browning Version (1951) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded drama · rattigan · school entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured drama / rattigan, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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