classroom movies

[calvin]

Looking for movies that emphasize classroom scenes,
'Dead Poets Society' and 'The Paper Chase' being two
examples. British classrooms especially, and a
de-emphasis on love stories, are desirable.

[Mack A. Damia]

Goodbye, Mr. Chips
To Sir With Love
The Corn is Green (1940)
A Yank at Eton (1942)

Many more.....
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[calvin]

> ...

Netflix has available only the 1978 version of
The Corn is Green, with Katharine Hepburn; and only
the 1969 version of Goodbye Mr. Chips, with Peter
O'Toole. It has To Sir With Love only for 'save'
status, and it hasn't heard of A Yank at Eton.

I'm looking forward to the Hepburn and O'Toole
movies. Thanks.

[Wull]

"To Sir With Love" and the one with Maggie Smith when she won an AA, I
think.

Wull

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[notbob]

On 2012-01-17, calvin <cri...@windstream.net> wrote:

> O'Toole. It has To Sir With Love only for 'save'
> status, and it hasn't heard of A Yank at Eton.

To Sir is available streaming in US, as is Tom Brown's School Days
(1940).

Lotta newer and inner city classroom movies:

Blackboard Jungle
Up the Down Staircase
The Substitute
Stand and Deliver
Lean on Me
Dangerous Minds
etc....

nb

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[Wull]

I just thought of another "Blackboard Jungle"

Wull


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[notbob]

On 2012-01-17, Wull <wma...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
> "To Sir With Love" and the one with Maggie Smith when she won an AA, I
> think.

Not sure about that, but let us not forget Maggie's first biggie, The
Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. Prime stuff.

[calvin]

On Jan 17, 12:00 pm, "Wull" <wmai...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> "To Sir With Love"  and the one with Maggie Smith when she won an AA, I
> think.

From the IMDb I gather that you mean
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969),
which is available on Netflix, now queued.
Thanks.

[The Loan Arranger]

"The Emperor's Club" from 2002. A predictable exercise in tedium.

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[notbob]

On 2012-01-17, The Loan Arranger <lo...@loan.xxx> wrote:
> "The Emperor's Club" from 2002. A predictable exercise in tedium.

Does there exist any Kevin Kline movies that aren't?

[notbob]

On 2012-01-17, calvin <cri...@windstream.net> wrote:

Howzabout those classic military school movies, The Lords of
Discipline perhaps one of the best, Taps better than a poke in the eye
with a sharps stick, barely. I don't know about the rest of
these:

http://www.movierevie.ws/genres/1176/1/Military-School.html

[calvin]

Great. I had forgotten about this genre. Thanks.

[Howard Brazee]

On Tue, 17 Jan 2012 07:51:34 -0800 (PST), calvin
<cri...@windstream.net> wrote:

Are you emphasizing teaching? Or would something like _How Green Was
My Valley_ work?

--
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than in the clause which confides the question of war or peace
to the legislature, and not to the executive department."

- James Madison

[weary flake]

comedy: here's a scene from Back To School (1986)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fj5k6toS7i8

[notbob]

On 2012-01-17, weary flake <weary...@hotmail.com> wrote:

> comedy: here's a scene from Back To School (1986)

Lotta those, too.

Breakfast Club
School Daze
Animal House
Revenge of the Nerds + sequels
my all-time favorite, Legally Blonde
etc....

Not even gonna go into horror school movies.

As we can see, a subject that has milked to death. Not too many
authors or screen writers having avoided a class room of one sort or
another. ;)

[Mack A. Damia]

On Tue, 17 Jan 2012 08:32:58 -0800 (PST), calvin

<cri...@windstream.net> wrote:

>On Jan 17, 11:15 am, Mack A. Damia <mybaconbu...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, 17 Jan 2012 07:51:34 -0800 (PST), calvin
>> <cri...@windstream.net> wrote:
>> >Looking for movies that emphasize classroom scenes,
>> >'Dead Poets Society' and 'The Paper Chase' being two
>> >examples.  British classrooms especially, and a
>> >de-emphasis on love stories, are desirable.
>>
>> Goodbye, Mr. Chips
>> To Sir With Love
>> The Corn is Green (1940)
>> A Yank at Eton (1942)
>> ...
>
>Netflix has available only the 1978 version of
>The Corn is Green, with Katharine Hepburn; and only
>the 1969 version of Goodbye Mr. Chips, with Peter
>O'Toole. It has To Sir With Love only for 'save'
>status, and it hasn't heard of A Yank at Eton.
>
>I'm looking forward to the Hepburn and O'Toole
>movies. Thanks.

Mr. Holland's Opus
A Beautiful Mind
Simon Birch
Stand and Deliver
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Heathers
Election
Donnie Darko
Rushmore
Detroit Rock City
Welcome to the Dollhouse
Three O'Clock High
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[calvin]

On Jan 17, 2:00 pm, notbob <not...@nothome.com> wrote:
> ...
> Not even gonna go into horror school movies.
>
> As we can see, a subject that has milked to death.  Not too many
> authors or screen writers having avoided a class room of one sort or
> another.  ;)

What I had in mind, though I guess I didn't make it
clear, were movies that were more on the cerebral
side, seriously about the teaching and classroom
experience, not merely movies that happened to
have a classroom scene, or movies about disrespectful
teenage dingbats or vampires.

[Stone me]

"calvin" <cri...@windstream.net> wrote in message
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Fee paying schools also commonly referred to as "Public Schools"were
and are entirely different, so movies like :-
Goodbye Mr.Chips
and
Tom Brown's Schooldays(1951)
must be viewed with that in mind.

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie(1969)

a fanciful tale, though does a job of portraying a classroom atmosphere.

There was a successful TV series "Grange Hill" starting in 1978 which
was worth a look, giving an atmospheric look at school life from a pupil's
eye view.

Stone me.

[Wull]

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I remember an exceptional movie from years ago called 'Good Morning Miss
Dove" with Jennifer Jones as the star.

And believe it or not, Kindergarden Cop is a very good movie.

Wull

[Wull]

"calvin" <cri...@windstream.net> wrote in message
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Another good movie about school and students was one starring Matt Damon and
the star of the Mummy. It was a different twist and the only movie I
remember where Damon was not a good guy.

Wull

[The Loan Arranger]

"Crime School" with Bogie and the Dead End kids

[John Dean]

The Winslow Boy
The Guinea Pig
Any of the St Trinians movies


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Oxford

[Dave in Toronto]

KES

Excellent movie but there maybe problems with the heavy Yorkshire
dialect.

For comedies there's :

THE HAPPIEST DAYS OF YOUR LIFE
(Alistair Sim and Margaret Riutherford make a great comedy team.

BOYS WILL BE BOYS.
GOOD MORNING BOYS
THE GHOST OF St. MICHAELS
(All of these featured British comedian Will Hay -http://www.imdb.com/
name/nm0370547/bio- Whose radio and stage personna was that of a
school-master.)

Dave M

[Mack A. Damia]

"Bottoms Up" (1960, UK) (1962, USA)
(Professor Jimmy Edwards)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053668/

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[notbob]

On 2012-01-17, John Dean <john...@fraglineone.net> wrote:

> The Winslow Boy

Recently watched that. Not sure it qualifies, as not a single scene
transpires in a classroom. More of a courtroom drama, which Netflix
classifies it as.


Oooh oooh!... Conrack, which is based on Pat Conroy's book, The Water
Is Wide. Examples of both Voight's and Conroy's best. Conroy also
wrote The Lords of Discipline, previously mentioned. Definitely a man
obsessed with a classroom. ;)

[Richard Brooks]

calvin said the following on 17/01/2012 15:51:

Boys Will Be Boys (1935)

<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qLGOjy1Z6M>

Good Morning Boys (1937)

<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bV4s0RJlLoE>

[David O.]

On Tue, 17 Jan 2012 07:51:34 -0800 (PST), calvin
<cri...@windstream.net> wrote:

>Looking for movies that emphasize classroom scenes,
>'Dead Poets Society' and 'The Paper Chase' being two
>examples. British classrooms especially, and a
>de-emphasis on love stories, are desirable.

THE FOUR HUNDRED BLOWS (Truffaut)
ZERO FOR CONDUCT (Vigo)
THE CORN IS GREEN (Rapper)
GOODBYE, MR. CHIPS (Wood)

[Kingo Gondo]

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REPLY:

No wonder I don't use Netflix. My library can beat this shit.

Absolutely do NOT accept the remake of Chips. The original is truly great.

[Kingo Gondo]

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On Jan 17, 5:39 pm, "John Dean" <john-d...@fraglineone.net> wrote:
> Mack A. Damia wrote:
> > On Tue, 17 Jan 2012 07:51:34 -0800 (PST), calvin
> > <cri...@windstream.net> wrote:
>
> >> Looking for movies that emphasize classroom scenes,
> >> 'Dead Poets Society' and 'The Paper Chase' being two
> >> examples. British classrooms especially, and a
> >> de-emphasis on love stories, are desirable.
>
> > Goodbye, Mr. Chips
> > To Sir With Love
> > The Corn is Green (1940)
> > A Yank at Eton (1942)
>
> > Many more.....
>
> The Winslow Boy
> The Guinea Pig
> Any of the St Trinians movies
>
> --
> John Dean
> Oxford


KES

Excellent movie but there maybe problems with the heavy Yorkshire
dialect.

REPLY:

Awesome movie. Turn on the closed captions if the dialect is too much.

[Kingo Gondo]

"calvin" <cri...@windstream.net> wrote in message

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> Looking for movies that emphasize classroom scenes,
> 'Dead Poets Society' and 'The Paper Chase' being two
> examples. British classrooms especially, and a
> de-emphasis on love stories, are desirable.

If (1968)
Au Revoir Les Enfants (1987)

And I second Kes highly.

[Mack A. Damia]

That was the film (1939) in which Robert Donat beat out Clark Gable
(GWTW) for the Best Actor Oscar.

Otherwise, GWTW swept the awards.
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[Heynonny]

Tom Brown's School Days (1940). I think there were a couple of remakes,
I saw 1951 mentioned here, I don't know them. But the 1940 version is
very much worth a watch; uneven, but some great sequences.

[Heynonny]

Ahh, I looked up the 1951 version of Tom Brown's School Days and I
remember it. Also good, maybe smoother, but the 1941 had higher peaks.

Robert Newton seems to be one of those love him/hate him kind of actors
and he's actually what I most remember about the 1951 version, though
Hardwick was really intense in the earlier one.

[trotsky]

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056194/

[John Dean]

notbob wrote:
> On 2012-01-17, John Dean <john...@fraglineone.net> wrote:
>
>> The Winslow Boy
>
> Recently watched that.

Which version?

--
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Oxford

[globular]

On 18/01/2012 4:10 AM, calvin wrote:
> On Jan 17, 12:00 pm, "Wull"<wmai...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>> "To Sir With Love" and the one with Maggie Smith when she won an AA, I
>> think.
>
> From the IMDb I gather that you mean
> The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969),
> which is available on Netflix, now queued.
> Thanks.

Could you mail me a copy please?

[art...@yahoo.com]

On Jan 17, 10:51 am, calvin <cri...@windstream.net> wrote:
> Looking for movies that emphasize classroom scenes,
> 'Dead Poets Society' and 'The Paper Chase' being two
> examples.  British classrooms especially, and a
> de-emphasis on love stories, are desirable.

The Class (2008)
(French)

[notSOPA-PIPA]

Not sure where you folks are, but here in Colorado USA, Mr Chips w/
Donat is available on disk. Don't see Green and Yank, though.

I musta seen Yank on TCM when I still had cable, cuz I recall a movie
along those lines --outsider from USA-- but not those actors (1942).
Is there an earlier version?

notSOPA-PIPA

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On 2012-01-18, John Dean <john...@fraglineone.net> wrote:
> notbob wrote:
>> On 2012-01-17, John Dean <john...@fraglineone.net> wrote:
>>
>>> The Winslow Boy
>>
>> Recently watched that.
>
> Which version?

Ahhh..... the later 1999 version. Haven't seen the Donat version. It
was originally a play based on an actual event.

[calvin]

Actually I could, but should or would are
different questions.

[Howard Brazee]

How does it compare to the mini-series?

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than in the clause which confides the question of war or peace
to the legislature, and not to the executive department."

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[Mack A. Damia]

On 18 Jan 2012 14:50:53 GMT, notSOPA-PIPA

"A Yank at Eton" was the sequel to "A Yank at Oxford", (1938),
directed by Jack Conway, with Robert Taylor , Lionel Barrymore and
Maureen O'Sullivan.

As far as I know, there is no other version of "Eton" starring Mickey
Rooney.

[Dave in Toronto]

On Jan 18, 1:26 pm, Mack A. Damia <mybaconbu...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> On 18 Jan 2012 14:50:53 GMT, notSOPA-PIPA
>
>
>
>
>

> <notSOPA-P...@notSOPA-PIPA.com> wrote:

> Rooney.- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -



_A CHUMP AT OXFORD__ with Laurel and Hardy - Peter Cushing was in this
also, it was his third movie,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7M6fgTHTSsE

Dave M

[Dave in Toronto]

I've only seen the 1940 version. I would imagine the some of the
dialogue would have been changed for the later versions - the word
"fag" had a different meaninig in 1940 and the late nineteenth century
when the original book was written.

The original semi-autobiographical novel by Thomas Hughes has been
described as a "somewhat unpleasant" classic and there is some truth
in that. British public schools were (and perhaps still are)
notorious for their strict discipline and the bullying to which
teachers sometimes turned a blind eye, so Hughes was probably just
telling it like it was.

The school bully Flashman found fame in his post schoolroom days
through the novels of George Macdonald Fraser.

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/f/george-macdonald-fraser/

Dave M

[notSOPA-PIPA]

On 2012-01-18, Mack A Damia <mybaco...@hotmail.com> wrote:

> "A Yank at Eton" was the sequel to "A Yank at Oxford", (1938),
> directed by Jack Conway, with Robert Taylor , Lionel Barrymore and
> Maureen O'Sullivan.

Bingo! That's the one. A very young Robert Someone or Ray Milland is
more along the lines of what I recall.

Speaking of Ray Milland, Netflix also doesn't have my favorite ghost
story movie, The Uninvited (1944), with Ruth Hussey and a smokin' cute
Gail Russel. Some, including myself, would argue the best ghost story
movie ever made.

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On 18 Jan 2012 21:22:50 GMT, notSOPA-PIPA

<notSOP...@notSOPA-PIPA.com> wrote:

>On 2012-01-18, Mack A Damia <mybaco...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> "A Yank at Eton" was the sequel to "A Yank at Oxford", (1938),
>> directed by Jack Conway, with Robert Taylor , Lionel Barrymore and
>> Maureen O'Sullivan.
>
>Bingo! That's the one. A very young Robert Someone or Ray Milland is
>more along the lines of what I recall.
>
>Speaking of Ray Milland, Netflix also doesn't have my favorite ghost
>story movie, The Uninvited (1944), with Ruth Hussey and a smokin' cute
>Gail Russel. Some, including myself, would argue the best ghost story
>movie ever made.

Got the DVD. Main reason is to hear the fabulous "Stella by
Starlight", music by Victor Young, who did a lot of films scores
including "Shane".

Lyrics were not added until several years later by Ned Washington.

One of the most popular songs ever composed. The entire film used to
be on YouTube. Pulled for copyright infringement.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B96ApEvaoBY

Gail Russell had a tragic life. Started drinking to alleviate her
stage fright and became a hopeless alcoholic.
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[Mack A. Damia]

Somethings akin to the traditions of the HM Royal Navy:

Rum, sodomy and the lash.
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[Mack A. Damia]

On 18 Jan 2012 00:02:18 GMT, notbob <not...@nothome.com> wrote:

>On 2012-01-17, John Dean <john...@fraglineone.net> wrote:
>
>> The Winslow Boy
>
>Recently watched that. Not sure it qualifies, as not a single scene
>transpires in a classroom. More of a courtroom drama, which Netflix
>classifies it as.

Let right be done.
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[Mack A. Damia]

On Tue, 17 Jan 2012 07:51:34 -0800 (PST), calvin
<cri...@windstream.net> wrote:

>Looking for movies that emphasize classroom scenes,

I know "Smiley" (1956) an Australian film had several classroom
scenes. There was also a sequel, "Smiley Gets a Gun", (1958), but I'm
unfamiliar with it.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049771/
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[globular]

I can't get that movie. But I usually end up buying such movies from
overseas.
Another movie with Maggie Smith, I remember from the Academy Awards in
the early 70s, Travels With My Aunt. I'm waiting for one day to see
that one.

[calvin]

Why don't you join Netflix and rent it? That's the way
I will see it soon.

[Howard Brazee]

On Thu, 19 Jan 2012 10:55:26 +1100, globular
<takecar...@gmail.com> wrote:

>I can't get that movie. But I usually end up buying such movies from
>overseas.
>Another movie with Maggie Smith, I remember from the Academy Awards in
>the early 70s, Travels With My Aunt. I'm waiting for one day to see
>that one.

I thought that was odd at the time. But I did enjoy it and would
like to see it again.

[Tom]

Nice site with vast library...

http://www.moviesunlimited.com/musite/product.asp?sku=D61216

Happy shopping.

Tom

[Dave in Toronto]

On Jan 18, 4:22 pm, notSOPA-PIPA <notSOPA-P...@notSOPA-PIPA.com>
wrote:

When _THE UNINVITED_ was first shown in the UK reviewers praised the
director for his discrection in never actually showing the ghost -
actually he had but British censors deemed the scene too scary and
removed it.

Dave M

[David O.]

On Wed, 18 Jan 2012 10:26:12 -0800, Mack A. Damia
<mybaco...@hotmail.com> wrote:

>"A Yank at Eton" was the sequel to "A Yank at Oxford", (1938),
>directed by Jack Conway, with Robert Taylor , Lionel Barrymore and
>Maureen O'Sullivan.

I confuse Jack Conway with Jack Clayton with Jack Cardiff sometimes.

[David O.]

On Wed, 18 Jan 2012 05:56:33 -0800 (PST), "art...@yahoo.com"
<art...@yahoo.com> wrote:

>The Class (2008)
>(French)

Is that the movie about the schoolkids who sing?

[David O.]

On Wed, 18 Jan 2012 23:01:13 +0000, "Brian Kraft" <bkr...@nyx.net>
wrote:

>>From the IMDb I gather that you mean
>>The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969),
>>which is available on Netflix, now queued.
>

>Who-loves-who is emphasized. One of my favorite movies.

" . . . and he was seized with such a longing . . ."

[art...@yahoo.com]

No. It is about a middle school in Paris in which most of the students
are poor immigrants.

[Kingo Gondo]

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Obviously you don't know Jack.

[Richard Brooks]

David O. said the following on 19/01/2012 16:47:

That might be The Chorus (Les choristes) 2004.