dale hindmarsh

This is a touching portrayal of a polite, painfully shy teacher at a traditional 19th century British boys school spanning his career there over more than 60 years. At first considered too soft to manage his unruly students, the gentle humor and unwavering moral compass of “Mr. Chips”eventually wins the boys and the school administrators over. Across the decades he experiences lasting relationships with generations of his students, and then their sons and their grandsons. Crushing loss and trying to carry on despite of it is a recurrent theme- the loss of the wife he adores, and then the profound and tragic loss of so many of his former students in the senseless slaughters of the First World War. He perseveres, deceptively strong beneath a fragile appearance. This film is a moving portrait of a wonderfully humane good man and done with great sensitivity at all levels.