In the surprising world of Jean Brodie, there were two men and four girls.
A headstrong young teacher in a private school in 1930s Edinburgh ignores the curriculum and influences her impressionable 12-year-old charges with her over-romanticized worldview.
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- CinemaSerfon TMDB · Mar 20257/10
This film always reminds me of a teacher we had at primary school who thought the best way of obtaining discipline from us unruly eight year olds was to stamp her foot and look at her watch. All that actually achieved was for us to make more paper aeroplanes from the torn pages of our “Modern Comprehensive Artithmetic”. Had she adopted the more engaging and thought-provoking style of this titular Edinburgh lady, then she might have got farther (or is that further?). Anyway, an outwardly rather puritanical woman, Muriel Spark’s “Miss Brodie” (Maggie Smith) conforms to the conservative curriculum of the “Marcia Blaine” school for girls and to the doctrine of it’s spinsterly headmistress “Miss Mackay” (Celia Johnson). She has her girls, her favoured pupils in whom she has great faith. There’s “Sandy” (Pamela Franklin), “Jenny” (Diane Grayson), “Monica, (Shirley Steedman) and the newly arrived “Mary McGregor” (Jane Carr) and with their foie gras picnics in the school grounds and in the classroom she instils in them the values of love, poetry, truth, literature and…of fascism. Initially that’s extolling the virtues of Mussolini, but it isn’t long before she’s moved to Franco. All the wh
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Cast
- Maggie SmithJean Brodie
- Robert StephensTeddy Lloyd
- Pamela FranklinSandy
- Celia JohnsonMiss Mackay
- Gordon JacksonGordon Lowther
- Diane GraysonJenny
- Jane CarrMary McGregor
- Shirley SteedmanMonica
- Ann WayMiss Gaunt
- Heather SeymourClara
Crew
- Ronald NeameDirector
- Jay Presson AllenScreenplay
- Muriel SparkNovel
- Ted MooreDirector of Photography
- Rod McKuenOriginal Music Composer
- Norman SavageEditor
- Robert FryerProducer
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