Au revoir Mr. Chips!

Original title: Goodbye, Mr. Chips

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7.9/10

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Greer Garson and Robert Donat in Au revoir Mr. Chips! (1939)

An aged teacher and former headmaster of a boarding school recalls his career and his personal life over the decades.

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An aged teacher and former headmaster of a boarding school recalls his career and his personal life over the decades.An aged teacher and former headmaster of a boarding school recalls his career and his personal life over the decades.An aged teacher and former headmaster of a boarding school recalls his career and his personal life over the decades.

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IMDb RATING

7.9/10

12K

YOUR RATING

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Won 1 Oscar
- 6 wins & 8 nominations total

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Trivia
34-year-old Robert Donat ages 63 years (1870-1933) over the course of this movie. He remarked: "As soon as I put the mustache on, I felt the part, even if I did look like a great Airedale come out of a puddle."

Goofs
Miss Kathy tells Chips that the ballroom in Vienna is where Metternich drew up "the treaty of the five kings" (referring to the Congress of Vienna in 1814 ending the Napoleonic Wars) "nearly 100 years ago." But the montage after Kathy's death makes clear she died before the Boer War (1899) and Queen Victoria's funeral (1901). 100 years after the Congress of Vienna was 1914, the start of World War I when Chips becomes acting headmaster, and Kathy is spoken of as having died long ago.

Quotes
[dying words]
Mr. Chipping 'Mr. Chips': I thought I heard you saying it was a pity... pity I never had any children. But you're wrong. I have. Thousands of them. Thousands of them... and all boys.

Connections
Edited into Hollywood: The Dream Factory (1972)

Soundtracks
Brookfield School Song
(uncredited)
Music by Richard Addinsell
Lyrics by Eric Maschwitz
Performed by orchestra in opening credits
Sung by male chorus during school assembly and during closing credits

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Featured review

a truly great film

The more I read on IMDB the more I realise that so many people interested in movies do not consider films more than 25 years or so old. I suspect that this is because most users of IMDB are aged 30 - 40 ish. Goodbye Mr Chips is exactly (on first sight) the type of movie that many of you would not even consider viewing. It has no special effects, cost peanuts to make, no clever camera work but it does have those three essentials - superb story, great script and staggeringly good acting from Donat. The movie is about life, relationships, about despair and decency and the power of love. What more could anybody ask for in a movie? If this film doesn't move and inspire you then truly nothing will.

P.S. the Peter O'Toole version is pretty dire!!