From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

1973
G
1h 45m

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Ingrid Bergman in From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (1973)

Precocious Claudia and her brother run away from home and hide in the Metropolitan Museum in New York.Precocious Claudia and her brother run away from home and hide in the Metropolitan Museum in New York.Precocious Claudia and her brother run away from home and hide in the Metropolitan Museum in New York.

Director
- Fielder Cook
Writers
- E.L. Konigsburg
- Blanche Hanalis
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6.3/10

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Director
- Fielder Cook
Writers
- E.L. Konigsburg
- Blanche Hanalis
Stars

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Trivia
Mrs. Frankweiler makes a phone call sitting in front of a marble fireplace after sending the children to wash up before lunch, carved into that fireplace are the words, "A coeur vaillant rien d'impossible". This French phrase roughly translates to "nothing is impossible for a willing heart".

Goofs
When Jamie is playing "War" with Mrs. Frankweiler, with the camera on him, he plays his last card, he loses it, and his hands are empty. She takes her winning, and her hands are empty also. An instant later, after the cut, with the camera on her, she has cards in her hand and plays one more card on "his" card - a card that can not be there.

Quotes
Claudia: I wanted to be different. I wanted to be different.
Mrs. Frankweiler: And did running away from home make you different?
Claudia: No.

Alternate versions
A 1.33:1 aspect ratio version, edited down to 31 minutes, was released on DVD-R on August 1, 2008 from the Phoenix Learning Group using the original title "From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler".

Connections
Featured in Vintage Video Podcast: Patreon Exclusive: P045 From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (1973) (2023)

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Good, although not true to book

I loved E. L. Konigsberg's book, From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler. It is one of a few books that I remember fairly vividly from childhood, and I recently read it with my son, so we decided to watch this movie. I liked the movie, and thought that the children and Ingrid Bergman all gave fine performances. However, the movie differs from the book on minor details that I could see no rationale for changing (saying that Mrs. BEF lived in New Jersey, rather than Connecticut, for example). Mainly, though, I was very disappointed in the way the story ends in the movie in comparison to the book. In the book, Mrs. BEF gives the children a time limit and lets them figure out the answer to the mystery themselves. But in the movie, Mrs. BEF leaves Jamie playing cards with her butler, while she takes Claudia to another part of the house, where Mrs. BEF essentially solves the mystery for Claudia. I would still recommend the movie, but it's not nearly as good as the book.