Peter O'Toole
Arthur Chipping
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Goodbye, Mr. Chips is a 1969 British musical film directed by Herbert Ross. The screenplay by Terence Rattigan is based on James Hilton 's 1934 novella Goodbye, Mr. Chips , which was first adapted for the screen in 1939 .
- APJAC Productions
Goodbye, Mr. Chips: Directed by Herbert Ross. With Peter O'Toole, Petula Clark, Michael Redgrave, George Baker. A shy, withdrawn English schoolteacher falls for a flashy showgirl.
- Herbert Ross
- 55
- 2 min
Goodbye, Mr. Chips is a novella about the life of a school teacher, ... but using most of the Leslie Bricusse vocal score of the 1969 film, ... "Goodbye, Mister Chimps."
- June 1934 (US), October 1934 (UK)
- Psychological fiction
But "Goodbye, Mr. Chips" uses its budget quietly, with good taste, and succeeds in being a big movie without being a gross one. I think I enjoyed it about as much as any road show since " Funny Girl ." And that surprised me, since so much of the critical reaction has been negative. Even at its worst, "Chips" is inoffensive in its sentimentality.
In 1969, MGM released a musical remake of the 1939 film Goodbye, Mr. Chips featuring the songs of Leslie Briscusse with orchestration by John Williams. Peter O'Toole was cast as Arthur Chipping, the schoolteacher originally played on film by Robert Donat, and Petula Clark won the featured role of Katherine Bridges, a showgirl with a past.
- Herbert Ross, Dominic Fulford
- Peter O'toole
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Rated: 3/5 • Jan 4, 2004. Stuffy young Latin instructor Arthur Chipping (Peter O'Toole) is widely disliked by his young charges at a small public school in Great Britain in the 1920s, until he ...
