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Synopsis: Arthur Chipping is an academic teaching at Brookfield Boys School outside of London in the 1920's. Although he does what he considers best for his students, they don't much like him, nicknaming him "Ditchy", short for "dull as ditch water". His life changes when he meets Katherine Bridges, a music hall actress and a woman with a questionable past. She affectionately calls him Mr. Chips. Despite their differences, they fall in love. He in particular realizes that in striking a relationship, they will have many obstacles to overcome. He doesn't particularly like the world in which she is involved, including her friends and her profession, and she doesn't exactly fit the mold of a teacher's wife. Still, they decide to get married. She forgoes her career to be Mrs. Chips, living on campus as the housewife of a teacher at a proper boy's school. It is a world in which she will have to learn the rules, or at least bend them to her sensibilities, although she vows never to embarrass him. Kathe
Director(s): Herbert Ross
Production: MGM
  Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 6 wins & 3 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.0
Rotten Tomatoes:
100%
G
Year:
1969
155 min
637 Views


When you make jokes to Baxter

against tennis, better duck.

He didn't only get a tennis blue at Oxford,

he got a boxing blue.

- Also first-class honours in physics.

- Biology.

And we don't say honours in this country.

just degree.

I'm sorry.

Fenwick, I disagree with you profoundly

upon the importance of this issue.

To deprive Sutterwick of the chance,

just because that pernickety old idiot...

...has taken it into his head

to give his form an hour's extra tuition.

On the last day of term? Heh, heh.

Chipping's a brave man.

"Wine-dark sea" is a perfectly

acceptable description of the Aegean Sea.

I agree Homer does use it lather a lot...

...but then there are some epithets

we all use lather a lot, don't we?

I believe your favourite is "stinky."

Isn't it?

Forgive me if I prefer Homer's

more colourful imagery.

Twelve o'clock, I see, Sutterwick.

- Sir?

- Come here, would you?

Just distribute these around the class.

would you?

To each boy.

I think you'll find them

all clearly marked.

I won. I won.

I'm the champion.

I'm the junior tennis champion.

The Lex Canuleia...

...is not, as Colley Minor seems to think,

a law regulating canals...

...but a law that permitted Roman

patricians to marry plebeians.

An easy way to remember it...

...is to imagine a Miss Plebeian

wishing to many a Mr. Patrician...

...and Mr. Patrician saying he can't.

She could then reply.

"Oh, yes, you can, you liar."

Well, boys, I've finished.

You've all hated me for this, I know,

but I am paid to teach you...

...and your parents pay Brookfield

for you to learn.

We have a mutual duty, in fact...

...and it's not a duty that I, for one,

am prepared to betray.

This is goodbye for 10 weeks.

May I wish you all a happy holiday.

You may go.

Yesterday, I was their age

Tomorrow, they'll be my age

Sooner, much sooner than they know

And suddenly they will ask

What every child must ask

Where did my childhood go?

Where did my childhood go?

When did my youth, sweet and free

Suddenly slip away from me?

Was it so long ago?

Where did my childhood go?

When did the magic end?

When did the future meet the past?

Ending a dream too good to last

Taking away our friend

When did my childhood end?

Was it that day in early spring

That lingers on

When somehow I knew

This precious time would soon be gone?

What does the future show?

Spring will return again next year

And when she does

She'll find me here

Wondering still

I know

Where did my childhood go?

Yesterday, I was their age

Tomorrow, they'll be my age

Sooner, much sooner than they know

And suddenly they will ask

What every child must ask

Where did my childhood

Go?

Over by the new playing fields.

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Terence Rattigan

Sir Terence Mervyn Rattigan, CBE (10 June 1911 – 30 November 1977) was a British dramatist. He was one of England's most popular mid twentieth century dramatists. His plays are typically set in an upper-middle-class background. He wrote The Winslow Boy (1946), The Browning Version (1948), The Deep Blue Sea (1952) and Separate Tables (1954), among many others. A troubled homosexual, who saw himself as an outsider, his plays centred on issues of sexual frustration, failed relationships, and a world of repression and reticence. more…

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