The Browning Version
Summary:
Forty-three years after the first screen treatment of Terence Rattigan's play about a teacher facing the end of his career, Albert Finney takes on the role of Mr. Crocker-Harris, the Latin teacher forced into early retirement by a heart condition. After teaching in a public school for twenty years, Crocker-Harris is being put out to pasture in a less stressful job teaching English ... Full Summary >>
Cast:
Albert Finney - (Andrew Crocker-Harris)
Greta Scacchi - (Laura Crocker-Harris)
Matthew Modine - (Frank Hunter)
Julian Sands - (Tom Gilbert)
Michael Gambon - (Dr. Frobisher)
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Review:
Versatile Albert Finney is at home in the role of Crocker-Harris, a gruff schoolmaster who requires his high-born brats to recite Aeschylus in the original Greek. When Taplow presents him the Browning version on a soccer field, Finney weeps unsentimentally; his tears contain salt, not sugar. His brilliant performance reminds us al... Continue >>
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