Dec 14th

Goodbye Mr Chips*** (U)
Headgate Theatre, Colchester (last Colchester Film Society screening there)

US 1939. MGM. 112m.

A shy schoolmaster looks back on his long life at a boys' boarding school, encompassing both triumph and tragedy.
Sentimental school drama with some comic asides and an excellent star performance (that fought off competition as stiff as Clark Gable and Laurence Olivier for the 1939 Academy Award), and also some brief but sparkling cameos.

Written by: R.C.Sherriff, Claudine West, Eric Maschwitz, from the novel by James Hilton.
Producer: Victor Saville.
Director: Sam Wood.
Starring: Robert Donat, Greer Garson, Terry Kilburn, Paul Henreid, Austin Trevor, Lyn Harding, John Mills, Jill Furse, Judith Furse, David Tree, Cyril Raymond, Frederick Leister.
Photography: Frederick A. Young.
Music: Richard Addinsell.
Art Direction: Alfred Junge.

+ Robert Donat memorial plaque in Manchester