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Synopsis: Karen Wright and Martha Dobie are best friends since college and they own the boarding school Wright and Dobie School for Girls with twenty students. They are working hard as headmistresses and teachers to grow the school and make it profitable. Karen is engaged with the local doctor Joe Cardin, who is the nephew of the powerful and influential Mrs. Amelia Tilford. While the spiteful and liar Mary, who is Amelia's granddaughter and a bad influence to the other girls, is punished by Karen after telling a lie, Martha has an argument with her snoopy aunt Lily Mortar in another room. Lily accuses Martha of being jealous and having an unnatural relationship with Karen. Mary's roommate Rosalie Wells overhears the shouting and tells Mary what Mrs. Mortar had said about her niece. The malicious Mary accuses Karen and Martha of being lesbians to her grandmother and Amelia spreads the gossip to the parents of the students that withdraw them from the school. Karen and Martha lose a lawsuit agains
Genre: Drama, Romance
Director(s): William Wyler
Production: MGM Home Entertainment
  Nominated for 5 Oscars. Another 1 win & 6 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.8
Rotten Tomatoes:
86%
NOT RATED
Year:
1961
108 min
2,276 Views


We wrote it down last week.

- Put them in a vase for me, Mary.

- Yes, ma'am.

Good afternoon, Miss Wright.

Evelyn has just been

reading Cleopatra for us.

That's nice.

Mary just brought me a

gift of some flowers.

- Where did you get them, Mary?

- She picked them, especially for me.

Where did you get them, Mary?

Down near the lake.

I see.

That'll be all, girls. Thank you.

- Mary?

- I have to get my biology book for...

I'd rather you waited.

It wasn't necessary to go down

to the lake for those flowers.

There was a bunch exactly like these

in the trash barrels this morning.

What a nasty thing to do!

What a nasty thing.

Come.

Come and sit down.

Mary, why do you do these things?

Why do you lie to us so often?

I'm not lying.

If you have to do things to let off steam or

for adventure, come and tell us about it.

Tell us the truth. I promise

you, we'll try to understand.

I picked the flowers

down near the lake.

All right, you leave me no choice.

You'll have to be punished.

Take your recreation periods alone.

No field hockey, no swimming

and do not leave the school grounds

for any reason whatsoever.

- Saturday, too'?

- Saturday, too.

But the boat races are Saturday,

and you said I could go.

The boat races were a

privilege which you've lost.

I'll tell my grandmother how...

- Go upstairs.

- I'll tell her how you treat me.

Go upstairs, Mary!

I don't feel well.

I've got a pain.

It hurts here.

I've never had it before!

My heart! It's

stopping or something!

I can't breathe! I can't!

I can't!

It's nothing.

You'd better telephone Joe

and ask him to come over.

All right.

- What happened? Did she fall?

- No. I was disciplining her and...

- And you finally hit her?

- No, of course not.

- She just seems to have fainted.

- Maybe it's a heart attack.

Now, I think the feet should

be higher than the head.

- Try it here.

- Where?

- Here. Here.

- There?

Yes, there, a most important spot.

Yes, indeed.

When Delia Lambert had a

heart attack in Buffalo

right on the stage,

that was the spot.

- Did this Delia survive?

- Yes. I saved her.

How's her pulse?

The pulse is very bad.

I'm afraid she's slipping away.

There's no heartbeat at all.

We'll need a specialist.

Perhaps you, Doctor, would

condescend to take over?

What?

Heart attacks are

nothing to play with.

- Never played with one in my life.

- As the child's teacher, I...

Mrs. Mortar, please.

Well!

I was practically put

out of the room.

So you don't resent your aunt

being snubbed and humiliated?

- Aunt Lily.

- Karen is rude to me, and you know it.

Karen is very kind to you. And

what's even harder, very patient.

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John Michael Hayes

John Michael Hayes (11 May 1919 – 19 November 2008) was an American screenwriter, who scripted several of Alfred Hitchcock's films in the 1950s. more…

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