The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Movie Review 1969

Oscar-winning performance by Smith as a forward-thinking teacher in an Edinburgh girls' school in 1932. She captivates her impressionable young students with her fascist ideals and free-thinking attitudes in this adaptation of the play taken from Muriel Spark's novel.

Distribution

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Available on VHS
Running time 116 minutes.
Originally from British.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Period Piece: 1930s, Only the Lonely, Teen Angst, School Daze, Dedicated Teachers, Adapted from a Play, Edinburgh

Screenplay

Jay Presson Allen

Cast

Maggie Smith, Pamela Franklin, Robert Stephens, Celia Johnson, Gordon Jackson, Jane Carr

Cinematography

Ted Moore

Director

Ronald Neame

Producer

20th Century-Fox

Awards

Oscars 1969: Actress (Smith); British Acad. 1969: Actress (Smith), Support. Actress (Johnson); Golden Globes 1970: Song ("Jean"); Natl. Bd. of Review 1969: Support. Actress (Franklin).