Taplow

The Browning Version (1994)

Actors: Robin Demetriou (miscellaneous crew), Mike Figgis (director), Mark Isham (composer), Ridley Scott (producer), Terence Rattigan (writer), Libbie Barr (miscellaneous crew), Ronald Harwood (writer), Maryam d'Abo (actress), Albert Finney (actor), Julian Sands (actor), Michael Gambon (actor), Greta Scacchi (actress), Matthew Modine (actor), Pauline Hume (miscellaneous crew), Heathcote Williams (actor),

Plot: Andrew Crocker-Harris is an embittered and disliked teacher of Greek and Latin at a British public school. After nearly 20 years of service, he is being forced to retire on the pretext of his health, and perhaps may not even be given a pension. The boys regard him as a Hitler, with some justification. His wife Laura is unfaithful, and lives to wound him any way she can. Andrew must come to terms with his failed life and regain at least his own self-respect.

Keywords: adultery, american, bare-breasts, based-on-play, bicycle, boarding-school, book, bookshop, boy, boys'-bathroom
Genres: Drama,
Taglines: The greatest lessons in life are the ones learned by the heart. He's out of touch with a changing world, a faithless wife and a thankless career. But one small act of kindness may restore his faith.

Quotes:

Andrew: I'd rather have this present than anything else I can think of.

Taplow: I feel sorry for him...::Boy: Sorry?! For old Hitler? You little arse licker!

Andrew: In the Cold War, everyone wanted to learn Russian. Then came Perestroika; Russian wasn't trendy any more.

Foreign Affairs (1966)

Actors: Ronnie Barker (actor), Austin Trevor (actor), Richard O'Sullivan (actor), Joe Melia (actor), Dorothy Frere (actress), Sonia Graham (actress),

Genres: Comedy,

Whack-O! (1956)

Actors: Julian Orchard (actor), Samuel C. Jephcott (actor), Gordon Phillott (actor), Edwin Apps (actor), Harold Bennett (actor), John Hall (actor),

Genres: Comedy,

The Browning Version (1951)

Actors: Bill Travers (actor), Terence Rattigan (writer), Anthony Asquith (director), Terence Rattigan (writer), Jean Kent (actress), Ronald Howard (actor), Earl St. John (producer), Russell Waters (actor), Wilfrid Hyde-White (actor), Michael Redgrave (actor), Anton Rodgers (actor), Peter Jones (actor), Johnnie Schofield (actor), Norman Hudis (miscellaneous crew), Arthur Alcott (miscellaneous crew),

Plot: Andrew Crocker-Harris, a classic teacher in a British school, is a man hounded by a heart ailment, and by his wife's disloyalty, who is pursuing a science teacher. He has lost his feeling for the emotions of others and his understanding of the boys he is there to teach.

Keywords: adultery, ancient-greece, applause, atonement, based-on-play, boy, boys'-school, chapel, chemistry, church
Genres: Drama,

Quotes:

Andrew Crocker-Harris: You see, my dear Hunter, she is really quite as much to be pitied as I am. We are both of us interesting subjects for your microscope, hmmm! Oh, both of us needing something from the other to make life supportable for us... and neither of us able to give it. Two kinds of love, hers and mine. Worlds apart! Oh, I know now, but back when I married her, I did not think that they were incompatible, nor, I suppose, did she.

Andrew Crocker-Harris: I may have been a brilliant scholar, but I was woefully ignorant of the facts of life.

Frobisher: A good chap, Hunter, in many ways but no sense of discipline and of course like all scientists a trifle narrow minded.

Andrew Crocker-Harris: You must excuse me. I had prepared a speech, but I find now that I have nothing to say. Or rather, I have three very small words, but they are most deeply felt. They are these: I am sorry. I am sorry because I have failed to give you what you had the right to demand of me as your teacher: sympathy, encouragement, and humanity. I'm sorry because I have deserved the nickname of Himmler. And because, by so doing, I have degraded the noblest calling that a man can follow: the care and molding of the young. I claim no excuses. When I came here, I- I knew what I had to do, and I have not done it. I have failed. And... miserably failed. But I can only hope that you and the countless others who have gone before will find it in your hearts to forgive me for having let you down. I shall not find it so easy to forgive myself. That is all.

The Two Roads (1916)

Actors: Harold M. Shaw (director), Fred Groves (actor), Douglas Munro (actor), Edna Flugrath (actress), Wallace Bosco (actor), Ben Webster (actor), Florence Nelson (actress), Ben Landeck (writer),

Genres: Crime, Drama,