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Genres:
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Drama /
Romance /
Music
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Release:
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Director:
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William Wyler
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Actors:
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Miriam Hopkins,
Alma Kruger,
Catherine Doucet,
Carmencita Johnson,
Merle Oberon,
Joel McCrea,
Bonita Granville,
Marcia Mae Jones,
Margaret Hamilton
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Duration:
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93 min.
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Rating:
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(7.8/10)70.5
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Plot Summary:
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In the face its dilapidated fitness, best friends and recent college graduates Martha Dobie and Karen Wright determine to unpromised a girl's boarding mould at an abandoned farmhouse in Lancet, Massachussetts, the farmhouse bequeathed to Karen. They are assisted in fixing the house up by a local doctor, Joe Cardin, who quickly falls for Karen, and she in return him. Karen and Joe lief ripen into absorbed. The women are assisted in getting the faction touched in the head the found nearby county dowager, Amelia Tilford, who is looking as a service to a new seminary to which to send her granddau... ghter, Mary. Mrs. Tilford's approbation carries much weight in the community. They are also understood the unwanted benefit - for a fee - of Martha's pretentious, self-serving and bossy Aunt Lily Mortar, a stage actress, her services as an elocution teacher. Beyond Mrs. Mortar, problems arise at the school when trouble-making student Mary, who feels persecuted by means of her teachers, decides to extort revenge. She tells her grandmother of impropriety between Joe and Martha current one evening in Martha's bedroom. Mary's story includes some half truths and exaggerated truths, the truths which makes the crux of her dispatch more plausible. One of those half truths, which Mary does not fully realize, is that Martha secretly does have a crush on Joe. The stature and livelihood of Martha, Karen and Joe cooperate in the residue of Mary's lies.
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These Three
Wyler filmed Hellman's think nothing of 'The Children's Hour' twice, here in 1936 and as The Loudest Hint in 1962. Neither is entirely all right but both are incredibly moving. In the earlier story the experiences of a schoolgirl (Granville) who spreads malicious rumour-mill about two female schoolteachers forgoes the spicy of lesbianism but retains the essential theme that malice and bigotry can be cruel and utterly fatal if people (in scholar especially) urge to be convinced of it. Granville is awesomely horrid and Hopkins and Oberon memorable as the victims. Wyler relishes the grandeur of the play, which although dated in any case packs a punch in both versions.
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