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    Browning Version, The (1951)

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    Andrew Crocker-Harris (Michael Redgrave) is the unhappily-married middle-aged classics master at a public school. The tragedy of his life is the fact that while he passionately loves teaching, he succeeds only in making himself disliked.

    Ailing and timid, he is nicknamed “the Crock”, jeered at by the boys, scorned by his colleagues, and hated by his unfaithful wife, Millie. He accepted all these facts long ago and has developed a protective armour which he uses indiscriminately to ward off human contacts altogether.

    In the events of two days, his lifework and his hopes for the future seem smashed. Then one of the boys, Taplow (Brian Smith) – not particularly bright but of more than average discernment – instinctively suspects the existence of a human being behind the forbidding front put up by his master.

    Suddenly and quite unexpectedly, he pierces the Crock’s armour with the presentation of a parting gift – a second-hand copy of Robert Browning’s version of Agamemnon of Aeschylus (hence the title).

    In the last few minutes before he leaves the school (he is retiring due to ill health), the Crock makes an unexpected gesture of defiance towards the headmaster who has for so long humiliated him but finds in the unexpected applause which greets his frank apology to the assembled school the faith and courage to face his new life alone.

    Redgrave has never been better as he turns in a brilliant emotional performance as the persecuted schoolmaster. Jean Kent is good as the treacherous wife, and Nigel Patrick shines as Frank Hunter, the young science master who falls for her, and then discovers her true nature.

    Based on a one-act play by Terence Rattigan. A 1994 remake starred Albert Finney and Greta Scacchi.

    Andrew Crocker-Harris
    Michael Redgrave
    Millie Crocker-Harris
    Jean Kent
    Frank Hunter
    Nigel Patrick
    Dr Frobisher
    Wilfrid Hyde-White
    Taplow
    Brian Smith
    Fletcher
    Bill Travers
    Gilbert
    Ronald Howard
    Wilson
    Paul Medland
    Lord Baxter
    Ivan Samson
    Mrs Frobisher
    Josephine Middleton
    Carstairs
    Peter Jones
    Betty Carstairs
    Sarah Lawson
    Rev. Williamson
    Scott Harrold
    Mrs Williamson
    Judith Furse
    Laughton
    Theo Bryan
    Mrs Saunders
    Vivienne Gibson
    Mrs Wilson
    Joan Haythorne
    Bryant
    Michael Newell
    Mrs Sanders
    Dora Sevening

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    Anthony Asquith

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