TV drama: Goodbye Mr Chips
We Brits of a certain age and disposition will fondly remember the crackly old 1939 black-and-white film of Goodbye Mr Chips that seemed to be often repeated on afternoon television during the weekends of our childhoods. We met the film here and revisited the almost iconic scene where Mr Chips, an aging schoolmaster by this time in the plot, orders a boy (played by an actor clearly approaching his thirties) across the arm of a chair for a swift six of the best.
Goodbye Mr Chips has been
remade as a movie, a musical, a television series and as here into a TV movie.
This version
is from 2002 and stars the famous British actor Martin Clunes (I’m not sure how well he is known
away from those shores).
Alas, it lacks all of the tension
of the original (but at least the boy is actually played by, well, a boy ...)
Picture and video
credit: SMG TV Productions for ITV.
Only one stroke but that's quite a whack on the hand! Can't imagine what six of those on the backside is like.
ReplyDeleteYes, did they really ever whack on the hand at public schools? It is really not a good idea since you need a hand for handwriting. For me (1950's) it was the cane on clothes in the prefects' study, with all of them watching, or the hard slipper on pyjamas in the dormitory after lights out. That was infinitely worse than any cane, take my word for it.
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