Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969)
He is a shy schoolmaster. She is a music hall star. They marry and immediately have 283 children...all boys!
Director: Herbert Ross · Writer: Terence Rattigan
Academy Award-honoree Peter O'Toole stars in this musical classic about a prim English schoolmaster who learns to show his compassion through the help of an outgoing showgirl. O'Toole, who received his fourth Oscar-nomination for this performance, is joined by '60s pop star Petula Clark and fellow Oscar-nominee Michael Redgrave.
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Trailer
Director
Herbert Ross
Cast
Peter O'Toole
Arthur Chipping 
Petula Clark
Katherine Bridges 
Michael Redgrave
The Headmaster 
George Baker
Lord Sutterwick 
Siân Phillips
Ursula Mossbank 
Michael Bryant
Max Staefel 
Jack Hedley
William Baxter 
Alison Leggatt
Headmaster's Wife 
Jenny Runacre
Clinton Greyn
Bill Calbury 
Barbara Couper
Mrs. Paunceforth 
Michael Culver
Johnny Longbridge User Reviews (1)
I suppose if you are going to reimagine the classic 1939 version of this story, you have to ditch some of that film’s most charming elements and bring it up to date. That’s what Herbert Ross and Leslie Bricusse have done here and for the most part it sort of works. Peter O’Toole takes on the role of the fastidious Latin master at the all-boys “Brookfield” school where he is neither much liked by the staff nor much respected by the pupils. It’s on a trip to London to see a show that he meets it’s star “Katherine” (Petula Clark) but he puts his foot in his mouth rather. On a trip to Pompeii, he encounters her again and this time the seeds of something special are planted. Their return to his school exposes both of them to changing attitudes towards himself and her that tests their blossoming relationship and his professional commitment to something he’d hitherto given h…
