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Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939)
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Release Date:
28 July 1939 (USA)
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Tagline:
At The Top Of The Year's "Ten Best" - The picture that earns for 1939 a proud place in motion-picture history! more
Plot:
An aged teacher and former headmaster of a boarding school recalls his career and his personal life over the decades. full summary | full synopsis
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Headmaster
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School
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Teacher
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Boarding School
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Marriage
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Awards:
Won Oscar.
Another 7 nominations
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(4 articles)
Oscar Nominees To Number 10 Next Year
(From Studio Briefing - Film News. 25 June 2009, 1:12 PM, PDT)
Film Believed To Have Been Lost Is Found in Netherlands
(From Studio Briefing - Film News. 19 April 2004)
(From Studio Briefing - Film News. 25 June 2009, 1:12 PM, PDT)
Film Believed To Have Been Lost Is Found in Netherlands
(From Studio Briefing - Film News. 19 April 2004)
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One of the best films ever made
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Cast
(Complete credited cast) | 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 |
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Goodbye Mr. Chips! (USA) (alternative title)
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114 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (Western Electric Sound System)
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USA:Approved (certificate #5086) |
Canada:G (video rating) |
USA:Passed (National Board of Review) |
Sweden:Btl |
Australia:G |
Finland:S |
Germany:o.Al.
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Mr. Chips was modeled on W.H. Balgarnie, James Hilton's old classics master who taught for over 50 years at The Leys public school in Cambridge.
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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.
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Referenced in Dr. Kildare Goes Home (1940)
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What is the timeline sequence in the film?What does "haec olim meminisse juvabit" mean?
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Goodbye Mr Chips must be one of the best films ever made.
The acting of boys, masters and other characters is superb, as is the capturing of the late Victorian/Edwardian period in England, the joy of 1914 on the declaration of war, followed by the sombre roll-calls of the dead in chapel during the war years.
The character of Chips is an instruction in how someone's life can be transformed for the better by fortuitous events, in this case the meeting on the mountain between Chips and Katherine, which changed him from being a shy but well-meaning schoolmaster who found it difficult to establish a rapport with his pupils and colleagues into someone whose hidden depths and charisma were brought into view by a woman he loved.
This gentle, decent and moving film illustrates, through both Chips and Katherine, the importance of giving of oneself to others who in their turn will benefit as human beings; concepts which might seem outdated in our modern world but remain valuable and timeless.