Search - The Browning Version [Criterion Collection] on DVD

Content Advisory: Suitable for Children Movie Release: 1951 DVD Release: 06/28/2005 Format: DVD - Black and White Edition: Restored/Remastered,Special Collection Audio Tracks: English Subtitles: English SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 29 mins Studio: Criterion Members Wishing: 12 Genres: Drama, Psychological Drama, Melodrama

Michael Redgrave gives his greatest performance as Andrew Crocker-Harris, a boarding-school teacher who realizes that his life may be a failure, in this powerful adaptation of Terence Rattigan's play with a screenplay by Rattigan himself. Poor health forces Crocker-Harris to give up his teaching position after years of thankless service and scorn from his students and colleagues. His marriage to Millie (Jean Kent) is also in free fall, as his wife is openly having an affair with the school's chemistry teacher, Hunter (Nigel Patrick). The sensitivity of one student (Brian Smith) breaks through Crocker-Harris's reserved British exterior, but it takes the final departure of his wife, right before the school's graduation exercises, to wake him up once and for all. He discards his prepared speech and speaks openly to the assembled students, delivering a moving apology for having failed them as their teacher. The film's rich montage of incident and character detail builds to intense emotional heights that make this version of The Browning Version a classic. ~ Don Kaye, All Movie Guide

Michael Redgrave - Andrew Crocker-Harris
Jean Kent - Millie Crocker-Harris
Nigel Patrick - Frank Hunter
Wilfrid Hyde-White - Frobisher
Brian Smith - Taplow
Ronald Howard - Gilbert