- Actors: Peter O'Toole, Petula Clark, Michael Redgrave, Alison Leggatt, Siān Phillips
- Directors: Herbert Ross
- Writers: James Hilton, Terence Rattigan
- Producers: Arthur P. Jacobs, Mort Abrahams
- Format: Colour, DVD-Video, Original recording remastered, NTSC
- Language English
- Subtitles: English, French, Japanese, Thai
- Region: Region 1 (US and Canada DVD formats.)
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 2.20:1
- Number of discs: 1
- Classification: G (General Audience) (US MPAA rating. See details.)
- Studio: Warner Home Video
- DVD Release Date: 27 Jan 2009
- Run Time: 155 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B00005JO3W
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 24,607 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)
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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
I always enjoy watching this version of Goodbye Mr.Chips but sadly have lost my copy. Although the film is quite dramatic it is also gentle and easy to view. The sensitivity and strength of character that Peter O'Toole and Petula Clarke show towards prejudice and bullying is testament to their great acting skills and that anyone can succeed in the face of adversity.
Also having music to support such a classic story enhances its appeal to many more viewers. I hope I will be able to find another copy soon, preferably on DVD and new.
Also having music to support such a classic story enhances its appeal to many more viewers. I hope I will be able to find another copy soon, preferably on DVD and new.
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
At last - it's coming in fully restored DVD. The release date is Jan 27th 2009, available to pre-order, search it out at Amazon.com (US). Until it's regionally released for Europe and other zones get a multi-zone player if you haven't already - 'cos we've all waited long enough for this one!!!!
Despite some rather lukewarm reviews of this film, don't be put off. It's release must just have been the wrong time for a musical of this nature, but with the world in a financial mess again I bet we see a resurgence of the genre, and this one is up there with the best of them. Frankly in comparison to the Donat/Garson version I found this one much easier to believe.
O'Toole IS Chipping and if the handling of Katherine's death (a delightful Pet Clark) doesn't tug at you heartstrings you simply don't have any. The music is appropriate, maybe it's not shot through with hits, but I bet at least a couple of the numbers besides the school anthem "Fill the World With Love" will echo in your mind. O'Toole's song voice too has been questioned, but he's a schoolmaster for heaven's sake, not an opera divo. As he did in Man of La Mancha, (and as Rex Harrison did in anything he spoke to music) he lends a sincerity to the words that's hard to fault. Petula is at her best, captivating and endearing. Look out too for an eccentric supporting role from Sian Phillips (O'Toole's wife at the time).
So go ahead and pre-order - what are you waiting for?
Despite some rather lukewarm reviews of this film, don't be put off. It's release must just have been the wrong time for a musical of this nature, but with the world in a financial mess again I bet we see a resurgence of the genre, and this one is up there with the best of them. Frankly in comparison to the Donat/Garson version I found this one much easier to believe.
O'Toole IS Chipping and if the handling of Katherine's death (a delightful Pet Clark) doesn't tug at you heartstrings you simply don't have any. The music is appropriate, maybe it's not shot through with hits, but I bet at least a couple of the numbers besides the school anthem "Fill the World With Love" will echo in your mind. O'Toole's song voice too has been questioned, but he's a schoolmaster for heaven's sake, not an opera divo. As he did in Man of La Mancha, (and as Rex Harrison did in anything he spoke to music) he lends a sincerity to the words that's hard to fault. Petula is at her best, captivating and endearing. Look out too for an eccentric supporting role from Sian Phillips (O'Toole's wife at the time).
So go ahead and pre-order - what are you waiting for?
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Beautiful, lyrical music by Leslie Bricusse - lovely memorable songs - why isn't the composer mentioned in the DVD listing? Inimitable Peter O'Toole simply delightful in Hilton's poignant story of love and loss and survival. I didn't feel the opportunity given for Pet Clarke as a musical comedy stage actress to do stage numbers quite worked but in all other ways she was excellent as the shy middle-aged schoolmaster's ebullient young wife and the catalyst for his sudden rise to immense - deserved of course - popularity.
Setting the story to start just before WW2 and classics teacher Chips to travel to Greece to meet his future wife in a Greek theatre was an effective and undisturbing update of the earlier movie with 30's heart-throb actor Robert Donat whose Oscar-winning Chips meets his wife during a walking tour in the Alps and had the story to go through WW1.
Unmissable, both movies, and I love both the actors, but if I had to keep just one of the movies, it'd be this one. There's another recent version with Martin Clunes - well worth watching and as always with Clunes, very well acted, but it didn't quite catch at my heart as these two earlier versions do. And also there was a stage version starring John Mills for which I found a CD version - also well worth having. I wonder why he didn't get to star in the movie version but I have to admit I'm delighted Peter O'Toole was chosen for this movie.
Setting the story to start just before WW2 and classics teacher Chips to travel to Greece to meet his future wife in a Greek theatre was an effective and undisturbing update of the earlier movie with 30's heart-throb actor Robert Donat whose Oscar-winning Chips meets his wife during a walking tour in the Alps and had the story to go through WW1.
Unmissable, both movies, and I love both the actors, but if I had to keep just one of the movies, it'd be this one. There's another recent version with Martin Clunes - well worth watching and as always with Clunes, very well acted, but it didn't quite catch at my heart as these two earlier versions do. And also there was a stage version starring John Mills for which I found a CD version - also well worth having. I wonder why he didn't get to star in the movie version but I have to admit I'm delighted Peter O'Toole was chosen for this movie.
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O'Toole at his best.
One of the great classic musical movies of all time. Peter O'Toole and Petula Clark are superbly cast. Perhaps my only complaint is that is about 30 minutes too long. Read more
Published 13 months ago by John Blake
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I AM NOT VERY HAPPY AS MY DVD HAS NOT BEED DELIVER YET.IT IS NOW THE 1/4/09 AND I HAVE STILL NOT RECIEVED IT .
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