Mrs. Miniver

Starring:Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Teresa Wright, Dame May Whitty, Reginald Owen, Henry Travers, Richard Ney, Henry Wilcoxon, Christopher Severn, Brenda Forbes, Clare Sandars, Marie De Becker, Helmut Dantine, John Abbott, Connie Leon, Rhys Williams, Vivia Steele, Forrester Harvey, Guy Bellis, David Clyde
Director: William Wyler, Allan Kenward, Basil Wrangell
Studio: Warner Home Video
Product Type: DVD

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A movie doesn't win seven Oscars for nothing. A glowing Greer Garson (Best Actress) commands the screen as Mrs. Miniver, a middle-class British housewife whose strength holds her family together as World War II literally hits their home. Walter Pidgeon as her architect husband seems to be the prototype for future TV dads in this affecting portrait of love--familial and romantic--during war. But the relationship between Mrs. Miniver's college-age son (Richard Ney) and the upper-crust Carol (Best Supporting Actress Teresa Wright) is filled with inherent drama--as the war speeds up their young love, it also has the potential to doom it. The 1942 film, which also won for Best Picture and Best Director, is filled with colorful characters, snappy dialogue, and sensational plot twists. Although you spend much of the movie dreading that one of the Minivers will become a casualty of war, when it finally happens, it's not what you anticipated. Exactly what you'd expect from a legendary film that lives up to its billing. --Valerie J. Nelson

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Winner of six Academy Awards(R) including Best Picture, this memorable spirit-lifter about an idealized England that tends its prize-winning roses while confronting the terror of war struck a patriotic chord with American audiences and became 1942's #1 box-office hit. Greer Garson gives a formidable Oscar(R)-winning performance in the title role, comforting children in a bomb shelter, capturing an enemy parachutist and delivering an inspirational portrait of stiff-upper-lip British resolve. When Hitler did his worst, Mrs. Miniver did her best. Year: 1942 Director: William Wyler Starring: Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon

Customer Reviews:

Mrs. Miniver DVD.......2007-06-27

This is one of my favorite movies, and the black & white print on the DVD is pristine. This is an idealized presentation of England in the beginning of WWII, but I love the scene where the Minivers are all in their bomb shelter in the back garden, and reading "Alice In Wonderland" to their children. Very touching. I couldn't recommend this film more. The lovely actor who plays Mr. Ballard, the station master, who grows a rose he wants to name after Mrs. Miniver is so affecting; watch Mr. Ballard's face as Mrs. Miniver says how nice it is to have a rose named after one-you can see he just idolizes her. The end is both heartbreaking and uplifting. This film won best picture, best actress. best director and best supporting actress at the Academy Awards of that year. Bravo!

Superb movie.......2007-06-27

My husband and I are enjoying the WWII movies so much. This is a very patriotic movie and inspiring. Wish there was the patriotism today with movies supporting our troops. This is a movie about a family involved in a war, their contributions and courage in defeating the enemy. It is very touching and even includes a church scene with some appropriate scripture. Gee, are we allowed to do that anymore? I mean Christianity in a movie?
Highly recommend this movie for all.

A People's War .......2007-05-27

Greer Garson gives another tremendous performance in this family drama set in wartime England. In this film the victims, the stellar fighters are the civilians, the people who stayed home and quietly battled with their daily chores, food rations and welcomed their soldiers home. They do their tasks with humbleness, quietly. They are the the wives and brides, the upper and lower classes, they all fight together for the common cause, a just cause. Truly this was a war of classes: of all classes against a common enemy. Like Christian soldiers they march forward with resolution but no hatred, they helped with deeds more than words. There are truly some great scenes that will probably snatch a few tears from you. It is well directed by William Wyler, and it reminds me a little of his "The best years of our lives", only in a British version. It could very well deserve 5 stars, but I personally felt like there should be more into this film, that something else was lacking. Again, Greer Garson is the soul of this film. It's just wonderful to watch her act, she doesn't need words, her face says it all.

A Film that helped win the war...........2007-05-25

This shows the power of film....a movie that both Winston Churchill credited with helping the war effort and that even Adolph Hitler praised...!

It's a perfectly done work of cinema. There are extremely moving moments throughout, starting at the beginning with the lovely Mrs. Miniver accepting the compliment of having a rose, grown by the village station master, named after her. We see her kindness. As the film progresses we see the other facets of her personality---her charm, her humor, her love of frivolity (the hat!), her obvious love for her husband, her grown son and her two young ones. She is the soul of tact in dealing with the class consciousness that is present in the form of the elderly Lady Balfour who objects to the marriage of her grand daughter to the Minifer boy. As the war progresses and her challenges become more severe, Mrs. Minifer rises to each occasion. If this sounds hokey, believe me, William Wyler presents this in a way that is very real.

I've always heard of the English stiff upper lip and their staunch courage during WWII but this shows it in an amazing way...Mrs. Miniver knitting and chatting with Clem, her husband, about Alice in Wonderland as they are being bombed. That was just one more incredible scene!

We're not spared the sight of the heartache and loss of the war but the movie is not depressing...far from it. Again, it may sound cliche to a world that has grown so cynical, but this is indeed about the triumph of the human spirit. If you need a reminder of what's important in life and what isn't, see this film! I hate to think that we need a war to remind us; let's learn this lesson well so that we won't have to keep waging them.

As everyone here has written, Greer Garson perfectly embodies all the virtues of Mrs. Miniver, including beauty. But I'd also like to mention the very handsome and charming Walter Pidgeon! The nonchalance in which he shows his son the damage the bombing has done to the house is really something, "We were thinking of having the dining room re-done!"

Mrs Miniver.......2007-05-13

I am very please with the film and also the superb quality of the print. This copy which has been produced is the full length version with nothing cut out. I enjoy the extras that have been added. One of the best 6 academy awards

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Great way to start your collection of Best Pictures
Eighteen of the best movies of all time
Best Picture Oscar Collection - fantastic present
good deal but not in collectible condition
This is a great deal; looks like they fixed the problems,,,

Best Picture Oscar Collection (18-Pack)

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Release Date: 2005-02-08

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Great way to start your collection of Best Pictures.......2007-02-03

This is the set of 18 Best Picture winners on DVD that Warner Home Video controlled the rights to as of Feb. 2005, and spans the time period 1929-1992. Some of them hold up over time, and others were given the award because of technical achievements that no longer seem important. I'll go through each one and give my opinion:

Broadway Melody of 1929 - This was the first "talkie" to win the award. The screenplay is a mediocre love story, but the song and dance numbers are good. There's even a musical number in Technicolor - "Wedding of the Painted Doll".

Grand Hotel - Won in 1932 and contained a great ensemble cast about the personal lives of guests in a fancy Berlin hotel. This is a great one that still is worthy viewing today.

Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) - Probably the best of all the pictures about the famous mutiny. Still good viewing today. An odd aside - all of the nominees for best actor that did not win were from this film - Clark Gable, Franchot Tone, and Charles Laughton.

The Great Ziegfield (1936) - After the Hays code was fully in effect, the personal aspects of Ziegfield's life had to be modified for the screen. Still, a great movie with a great performance by William Powell as the famous showman.

The Life of Emile Zola (1937) - One of those period pieces that just didn't grab me. It is a very skillfully done film, very artistic, and Paul Muni gives a tremendous performance in the title role. It's hard to believe the articulate and gentile Emile Zola is being portrayed by the same actor who was equally convincing in "Scarface".

Gone with the Wind (1939) - This movie charts the life of a Southern belle who always wanted what she didn't have and took for granted what she did have as she lives through the Civil War and reconstruction. It is the most popular film of all time and probably the biggest money-maker if you factor in inflation. It was shown in movie theatres until it made its TV debut in 1976.

Mrs. Miniver (1942) - This is a good film, and it has great acting, but it is one of those films that probably won because of the times. It depicts how the British coped while under seige during World War II as experienced by one British family headed by Mrs. Miniver.

Casablanca (1943) - This one probably won because of the wartime theme, but it is a great piece of moviemaking that just gets better with time. The chemistry between Ingrid Bergman and Humphrey Bogart just oozes off the screen. It's more what's not said than what is in this film. The fact that Bogart didn't win best actor was one of the great injustices of all time.

An American in Paris (1951) - Of course the point of this film not the plot, it is Gene Kelly's dancing, which is fabulous as always. It inspired the quickly thrown together and even more popular "Singin In the Rain".

Around the World in 80 Days (1956) - A fun adventure, David Niven is great, and how they got all of those stars to play bit parts I'll never know. However, it really doesn't hold up as a great movie 50 years after the fact.

Gigi (1958) - The academy award winner in the year of my birth just does not inspire today. There are a couple of good songs, but not many. Plus the screenplay is antiquated and outright campy by today's standards.

Ben-Hur (1959) - One of those great Bible-era epics of the 50's. Even though it is a story on a large scale, it is all of the small scale stories going on that make it great - revenge, love, loyalty, loss.

My Fair Lady (1964) - One of the great musicals starring Rex Harrison in one of his greatest and most amusing roles. Nobody did stuffy British low-key comedy like Rex. He was robbed when it came to best actor, but fortunately the Academy rectified the situation a few years later.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) - Jack Nicholson is a rebel confined to a mental institution. When he doesn't conform, the evil nurse Ratchett has him lobotimized. A great film that will stir emotions even today.

Chariots of Fire (1981) - I personally love this film about the 1924 Olympic games and the conflict between God, country, and conscience seen through the eyes of two men - one a Christian who wants to be a missionary, the other Jewish who wants to be an insider in British society. It's a love it or hate it kind of film - either you find the internal struggles of these men compelling, or you'll find it torture to sit through.

Amadeus (1984) - Another of the modern era Oscars where you either love the message and love the film, or it puts you to sleep. I really loved this one too, partly because Mozart has always interested me, and partly because Salieri was such a ridiculous creature thinking he could best God by destroying Mozart. Didn't he ever realize that the fact that he recognized Mozart's talent before everyone else did was a talent in itself? If you can't build Microsoft yourself, then the next best thing was to have bought stock in it in 1975.

Driving Miss Daisy (1989) - The story of a wealthy elderly woman and her driver from 1948 up to the mid-70's. In spite of the difference in their races and the place - Georgia - they have much in common and slowly become friends. She is Jewish and he is Black in a time and place that wasn't ordinarily welcoming to either group of people. This is a sentimental favorite of mine, plus there's some good comic one-liners in it too.

Unforgiven (1992) - A different kind of Western in which Clint Eastwood wins his first award for Best Director. Eastwood is out to avenge the scarring of a prostitute in return for money when the justice the sheriff metes out on the offending cowboy is just not satisfactory to the prostitute or her friends. Eastwood plays an ex-criminal widower trying to make a go of farming when this assignment lands in his lap. In the end, he doesn't have a hard time finding his "inner killer". A really great film. Who'd have thought in 1965 that Ramrod Rowdy Yates had it in him?

This package is a good value at eleven dollars per Oscar winner, especially when you consider one of those Oscar winners is Gone with the Wind. Plus it has a good sampling of Oscar winners from all genres up to 1992. Depending on how you feel about the more modern Oscar winners (post 1965) that are usually slower, more thoughtful films, you may or may not feel the same. To me the only real dud is Gigi.

Also note that if you buy this set, "Studio Classics Best Picture Collection", and the new "Best Picture Collection", you'll have 29 of the soon to be 79 best picture winners. Not a bad start on your collection.

My only real complaints are that there have been four changes that should be incorporated into the pack to really make it complete as of Spring 2007 based on what is available, although it might require a price increase.
1. Ben-Hur is now available in a 4 disc special edition that includes the silent version of the film.
2. Cimarron, Best Picture 1930-1931, was released on DVD in 2006 by Warner Home Video and should be included.
3. After this pack was released "Million Dollar Baby" and "The Departed" won Best Picture for 2004 and 2006, respectively. These films are not included.
I'm really just pointing out minor flaws because, compared to all of the other studios, Warners has done the best job of putting all of the Best Picture winners they control into one attractively priced package.

Eighteen of the best movies of all time.......2005-09-26

This set contains 18 Best Picture winners from the Warner Video library. A few of them are fairly basic, with limited extras (Broadway Melody, Grand Hotel), while others are multi-disc deluxe editions (Gone with the Wind, Ben Hur). If you're looking to get your collection off to a start, with some of the all-time classics, I haven't seen a better boxed set than this one.

Best Picture Oscar Collection - fantastic present.......2005-09-21

This made my father very happy - has all the golden favourites and is great value.

good deal but not in collectible condition.......2005-06-11

It's a bunch of oscar winning movies from warner brothers with a great discount. but collectors beware of this set :

1. First of all, most of the items are not sealed. many of them looks like new, but some are not brand new, at least look like used!
2. I talked with 3 persons who purchased this item. all of them had complains about ruptures at the edge of some boxes which had caused with a blade or a sharp instrument.
3. there is not a huge outer box. only a wrap around all items.

after those negative points, lets say that, all of the DVDs are the best releases of each item. my word is, it's a good deal but don't expect to receive all of them in collectible condition! I don't want to blame warner but it seems that some of these DVDs are clean returned to market items!

This is a great deal; looks like they fixed the problems,,,.......2005-05-28

I purchased this set when the price was $140. However, I did not get Casablanca or Cuckoo's net SE's, but after I contacted AMAZON twice and waited for a while, they corrected the problem to my full satisfaction! I have never been happier with their service!

But, this is a great set because it has 18 of the best picture winners.

It has some of the best ones, and all the discs are the top of the line editions! way to go!!!

Now, if they could opnly get the last three best picture winners on DVD, I'd have them all!

Best Picture Oscar Collection - Drama (Amadeus/Casablanca Special Edition/Driving Miss Daisy/The Life of Emile Zola/Mrs. Miniver)

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Best Picture Oscar Collection - Drama (Amadeus/Casablanca Special Edition/Driving Miss Daisy/The Life of Emile Zola/Mrs. Miniver)
Starring: Morgan Freeman , Jessica Tandy , Dan Aykroyd , Patti LuPone , and Esther Rolle
Director: Bruce Beresford , William Dieterle , and Milos Forman
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There will always be an England.
A Viewer
the subtlety and greatness of "Mrs. Miniver"
Greer Garson Immortalised In Her Most Famous And Loved Role
Wonderful!

Mrs. Miniver [Region 2]
Starring: Greer Garson , Walter Pidgeon , Teresa Wright , Dame May Whitty , and Reginald Owen
Director: William Wyler
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There will always be an England........2005-10-06

I find World War II movies about the home front more interesting than actual battle scene flicks. More people can relate to the experience than the small percentage of soldiers that actually saw combat.
There are some really fine movies such as "Since You Went Away", "Tender Comrade" & the essential "Best Years of Our Life", actually made in 1946. Mrs Miniver from 1942 was one of the first of these movies & perhaps just a little better. It takes place in England as the war is about to begin portrays Dunkirk & the blitz that followed. It was aimed smack dab at American public opinion.
Despite this manipulation, it is an outstanding movie worthy of all the awards it received. Remember, at this time the outcome of the war was still in doubt (we were losing).
Greer Garson is absolutely wonderful as the idealized wife, mother & woman in those dark days during the Battle of Britian when England stood alone. Walter Pidgeon is her amiable husband, Richard Ney her grown-up son who joins the RAF. He falls in love with Theresa Wright, the typical girl-next-door type. There are her little children & Henry Travers (remember him?) for humor. Their well ordered life is torn apart, along with their beautiful home when it is bombed. Mrs. Miniver & the whole family are so brave, British, stiff upper lip & all that. You know some tragedy must befall them. When it does it is a bit of a surprise.

A Viewer.......2005-06-24

A wonderful movie which deserved all the awards which were bestowed upon it. It is refreshing to view great movies with wonderful stories minus bad language and nudity.

As a big fan of Greer Garson, I must comment on Jane Bedinger's review in which she claimed that Ms. Garson was having an "affair" with the actor who played her son. Ms. Garson fell in love with and married Richard Ney about a year after the movie was made. I don't see how Ms. Bedinger could consider this an "affair".

the subtlety and greatness of "Mrs. Miniver".......2005-05-07

When I watch this film, I feel like I am in Britain during those dramatic months when the RAF was fighting daily to ward off the brain-washed German barbarians, and the world was hanging by a thread. (Helmut Dantin shouts in German like Hitler at one point: "We will destroy everything!")Though it won the Academy Award in 1942, it was in fact made in 1941, and it is about events in 1939-1940, when Britain stood alone, a never-to-be-forgetten moment in human history. People more objective than I will call it propaganda; I call it a dramatic portrayal of the essence of a historial moment.

Willie Wilder manages to create on a Hollywood studio lot the atmosphere of village in Southern England (near Portsmouth perhaps). The flower show scene is superbly done: a wonderful madrigal choir sings a classical English folk song. It is a very English moment. Wilder's got the train (as they were then) right and the station, as well as the Enlish church with its private pews for the gentry. He even manages to get English accents out of everyone except Walter Pidgeon. Ney who plays Miniver's son (in real life about to marry his mother) and little Christopher Severn, her other son, are straight up and down Americans, but they pull off the accent perfectly. Dame May Whittey gives the sense of quality and breeding that was then a part of English character. Wilder touches affectionately upon English class obsessions, their former love of and excellence at gardening, the cockiness and the fashionable pseudo-radicalism of young Oxbridge graduates, the understated physical bravery of the English people. It's a brilliant job of director and a fabulous piece of revenge on Wilder's part for Hitler's antisemitism, of which he was a victim.

Mrs. Miniver is more than a film. It is part of history. It communicates the indominable spirit of the English people. Ney, who plays Miniver's son, is a subtle combination of youth and very purposeful strength. He giggles and cackles like a boy in front of his parents and siblings, but when he gets the girl alone he knows what he wants, and you recognize that he is very much a man. You realize also that in a Spitfire dogfight with the Germans over England, he will win. There are many angles to this film that warrant watching it a number of times.

"Mrs Miniver" did a lot to bring world opinion around to Britain's side, and in that, it is unique in Hollywood history as film of historical importane.

Greer Garson Immortalised In Her Most Famous And Loved Role.......2004-07-20

"Mrs. Miniver", was without a doubt the most famous film to come out of the World War Two period and provided inspiration and courage to countless people across the globe either already suffering the effects of war or living in fear of it possibly coming. It is among my personal favourites and I never fail to be moved and inspired by the simple story contained in "Mrs. Miniver". Criticised as being dated, or overly sentimental. I believe its simple message of looking after your fellow man and being strong for others in times of adversity is ageless. Towering over "Mrs. Miniver",is the performance by Greer Garson as house wife Kay Miniver who's comfortable existence is changed forever as she and her family like countless others, face the prospect of war and it's consequences. It was a landmark performance that rightly became associated ever after with Greer Garson and endeared her to a whole generation of everyday people who identified with the dilemmas Kay Miniver faced in the movie.

Nowadays its hard to believe that Greer Garson was highly reluctant to undertake the role after MGM's former queen Norma Shearer turned it down. Afraid of being forever typed into playing noble self sacrifing women rather than the comedy characters she aspired to, it nevertheless was the best career decision she ever made and it also cemented her legendary association with fellow actor Walter Pidgeon who plays her loving husband Clem. Mrs. Miniver was responsible for making this pair the most popular screen team of the 1940's. Based on the serialised novel by Jan Struther "Mrs. Miniver", was as timely a film as could be imagined in early 1942. With war raging in Europe and America on the brink of joining in this tale of a comfortable middle class English family and the trials and tragedies they undergo as a result of the war struck a chord everywhere. The film begins in the leisurely period just prior to England's becoming involved in the war against Germany. Distant rumblings are being heard about German aggression in Poland but life is taking its usual course in the small town of Belham until the Prime Minister announces that England is at war with Germany. Life is totally transformed over night as eldest son Vin (Rihard Ney) enlists in the RAF and shortages and black outs become a regular feature of everyday life. The full horrors of war come to the Village as the bombings begin, houses are destroyed and life is lost. Clem Miniver (Walter Pidgeon) gets a first hand look at the war when he is recruited to take part in the gruelling evacuation of Dunkirk, and Mrs. Miniver has a terrifying confrontation with a downed German pilot where she is held at gun point in her kitchen. Tragedy later strikes the family when only two weeks after the wedding to Vin, Carol Beldon/Miniver (Teresa Wright) is killed by some stray shell fire. Like in all times of war however the human spirit is still maintained and life goes on. Despite the danger of Nazi bombing the famous Belham flower show goes ahead as usual and elderly Lady Beldon (Dame May Whitty), a former believer in maintaining "one's place in the order of things", learns a lesson in humility when she graciously lets humble Mr. Ballard (Henry Travers), have the thrill of his life by winning the Best Rose at the show with his "Mrs. Miniver", Rose.

There of course is the famous quote by Winston Churchill in regard to this films impression on people that "Mrs. Miniver" was worth more to England's war effort than a dozen destroyers. High praise indeed. Of course in our present cynical age it's very easy to ridicule this film with its often picture post card views of English life just prior to the outbreak of war. I personally feel the film goes a long way towards trying to seriously show what life was like pre 1939 and certainly how that life was changed forever, and often tragically, by the bombings and losses that England endured. Its message of dealing with adversity and moving on is a universal theme just a relevant today. Criticism was also strangely made of the fact that the Miniver's where a quite affluent upper middle class family with servants. The movie I feel clearly illustrates that all classes suffered equally during the war and experienced loss and sadness. Despite her reluctance to take on the role Greer Garson IS Mrs. Miniver and never can I think of a more perfect marriage of actress and character. The film was not an especially pleasant working time because director William Wyler as seen in his famous work with Bette Davis, was notorious for his repeat takes and commanding manner on film sets. He clashed with famed MGM set designer Cedric Gibbons over what he termed Gibbons' "Chocolate Box" English Village set and often drove Greer Garson to distraction with his brusque direction. Despite those tensions the end result on screen was well worth it and the film boasts many unforgettable scenes and performances. The supporting cast is unsurpassed with the standouts being Teresa Wright as the tragic Carol Beldon, Dame May Whitty as Lady Beldon and especially Henry Travers in his touchingly poignant performance as Mr. Ballard, the station-master and creator of the "Mrs. Miniver" Rose. . The air raid scenes also are depicted in a stark and no holds barred manner that vividly convey the terror people experienced during these frightening bombings.

Topping Exhibitors polls everywhere as the most popular film of 1942 and winning 7 Academy awards in the process, including Best Film, Actress (Greer Garson), Best Supporting Actress (Teresa Wright) and Best Director (William Wyler), few films have left such an indelible impression on moviegoers in any time. Mrs. Miniver", has certainly gone down into movie history much the same way as "Gone with the Wind" has. As entertainment of its time "Mrs. Miniver", I believe is unsurpassed and makes for a totally engrossing movie experience. Tragedy and happiness are all equal components of our lives and "Mrs. Miniver", is richly endowed with both. A true movie treasure.

Wonderful!.......2004-05-12

This is one of the most moving stories I have ever watched! It's easy to see why the film was so effective as a morale-booster in the middle of WWII. I agree with the other reviewer that the rose scene is very touching, but the part that I found most heart-wrenching was the scene where the family is in the bomb shelter, and the bombs wake up the children. I almost cried when little Toby said, "They almost killed us that time, didn't they, Mother?" And, of course, the final church scene was very inspiring. I liked the way the composer wove "O God, Our Help in Ages Past" into the music. I thought the song, besides being one of my favorites, was very appropriate to the theme of the story. Over all, this film now has a place on my personal list of the best movies I have ever seen.

Goodbye Mr. Chips / Mrs. Miniver (Two-Pack)

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Well paired

Goodbye Mr. Chips / Mrs. Miniver (Two-Pack)
Starring: Robert Donat , Greer Garson , Terry Kilburn , John Mills , and Paul Henreid
Director: Sam Wood , and William Wyler
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Release Date: 2004-10-12

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Well paired.......2004-09-28

Good Bye Mr. Chips

This is the story of the 60 plus year life of a school teacher, Mr. Chipping (Robert Donat), from neophyte teacher to hopefully Head Master. On his way he will make several mistakes and learn from them. The movie has the feel of several stories running in series that all tie in to Chipping's life. He is also destined to meet the love of his life Katherine (Greer Garson) and see that the Danube is blue.

I do not want to go into a detail as that is the fun in watching eh stories unfold however I think it is significant when Chipping and Katherine are alone on the top of the world and time stops finding them selves in eternity. He also gets an insight or different slant of his carrier.
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Mrs. Miniver

It is hard to tell of the importance of this movie and skip the details. Yes the technical stuff may not be that interesting in a review like, after first choice Norma Shearer rejected the title role (as she refused to play a mother), Greer Garson was cast. The meat of the story is the action and interaction of family members. Add this to plausible plot twists and you come up with a movie that had a unique view of the sacrifices they endured during WWII. This is not some cardboard war propaganda film. So you do not think this review came off of some box cover, I would say to me the most moving sections were, the outcome of the Miniver Rose, unexpected war casualty, and of course as results the final church scene.

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