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Director: |
Anthony Asquith
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Starring: |
Michael Redgrave, Jean Kent, Nigel Patrick, Bill Travers, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Judith Furse, Scott Harold, Sarah Lawson, Peter Jones, Josephine Middleton, Ivan Samson, Ronald Howard, Brian Smith, Paul Medland
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Genres: |
Drama Classics, Performing Arts, UK Classics
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Origin: |
United Kingdom
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Certificate: |
PG
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Languages: |
English
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Running Time: |
90 min
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Adapted by Sir Terence Rattigan from his 1948 play, Anthony Asquith's The Browning Version is a poignant examination of repression and redemption set in the English public school system. Classics master Andrew Crocker-Harris is preparing to retire early due to ill-health. Considered a supercilious bully by his students and a stuffy buffoon by his colleagues, the "Crock", as he is known, has distanced himself from all human emotion—due, in part, to his wife carrying on with one of the younger masters. However, when a student thanks him with a gift of Browning's translation of Agamemnon, the Crock is stirred to action.
Michael Redgrave excels as the maligned schoolmaster in this distinguished drawing-room drama by one of the 20th century's greatest playwrights.
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