The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Ronald Neame · 1969 CE · Film · English · Contemporary

At a genteel Edinburgh girls' school in the thirties, a teacher in her prime feeds her chosen set on Giotto, Mussolini and her own romances while the headmistress hunts for grounds to sack her. One of the girls is quietly steered toward the art master's bed as a proxy. Maggie Smith took the Academy Award for a performance that never once lets the charm and the danger come apart.

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