The End of the Affair (1955 film)
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The Chalk Garden. Released May 21, 1964 1h 46m Drama List. 71% Tomatometer 7 Reviews 77% Audience Score 500+ Ratings Because the wealthy Mrs. St. Maugham (Edith Evans) needs help raising both...
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- Deborah Kerr
- Ronald Neame
- Drama
The Chalk Garden. Transplanted from stage to screen, Enid Bagnold's witty, pitiless and elliptical high comedy yields only a withered bouquet of hearts and flowers. Full Review | May 7, 2020
"The Chalk Garden" 1964 is the rare occasion where Hayley got to truly deliver an in-depth performance involving complex emotions and character development. Playing opposite Deborah Kerr, Dame Edith Evans, and her father John Mills must had been a thrill for her.
30 User reviews. 14 Critic reviews. 61 Metascore. Nominated for 1 Oscar. 3 wins & 6 nominations total.
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- Drama, Mystery
- Ronald Neame
- 1964-05-21
- Synopsis
- Picture 6/10
- Audio 6/10
- Extras 7/10
- Closing
Ronald Neame (The Odessa File) directs this stately adaptation of Enid Bagnold’s play which tells of a haughty matriarch (Edith Evans, The Whisperers) who employs a governess (Deborah Kerr, The Innocents) with a shadowy past to take care of her troubled teenage granddaughter (Hayley Mills, Take a Girl Like You, Endless Night), and her neglected gar...
Ronald Neame’s The Chalk Garden receives a new Blu-ray edition from Indicator, presenting the film on a dual-layer disc in its original aspect ratio of 1.85:1. The film has been given a 1080p/24hz high-definition encode. The disc is locked to region B. Indicator is clearly working with an older master, more than likely one made for DVD or televisio...
The film comes with a single-channel lossless PCM soundtrack. It’s generally clean and it manages to have a bit of a punch behind it, particularly in Malcolm Arnold’s score. There is an edginess there when things reach for certain heights, but it’s minor.
Indicator’s edition for the film (competing with Kino’s own North American edition and Imprint’s Australian one) includes a few exclusive features. Film historian Josephine Botting pops up in a couple of them, including a 10-minute interview featuring her going over author and playwright Enid Bagnold’s life and work, from her novels like National V...
Though the presentation has its strong aspects the master used is laced with artifacts that impact the final image. A couple of features stand out but I can’t say there is much here I would label as "must watch." BUY AT:
The Chalk Garden - Metacritic. 1964. Approved. Universal Pictures. 1 h 46 m. Summary An elderly woman hires a governess with a mysterious past to look after her disturbed and spoiled teenage granddaughter, who eventually understands the meaning of self-sacrifice, as an example of love, and grows into a better person. Drama. Mystery.
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The Chalk Garden. The Chalk Garden makes no bones about its legit background. Enid Bagnold's drama had a healthy 17 months' run at the Haymarket in 1956 and producer and director have not...
