A headstrong young teacher in a private school in 1930s Edinburgh ignores the curriculum and influences her impressionable 12 year old charges with her over-romanticized world view.
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Title: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969)
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| Maggie Smith | ... | Jean Brodie | |
| Robert Stephens | ... | Teddy Lloyd | |
| Pamela Franklin | ... | Sandy | |
| Gordon Jackson | ... | Gordon Lowther | |
| Celia Johnson | ... | Miss Mackay | |
| Diane Grayson | ... | Jenny | |
| Jane Carr | ... | Mary McGregor | |
| Shirley Steedman | ... | Monica | |
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Lavinia Lang | ... | Emily Carstairs |
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Antoinette Biggerstaff | ... | Helen McPhee |
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Margo Cunningham | ... | Miss Campbell |
| Isla Cameron | ... | Miss McKenzie | |
| Rona Anderson | ... | Miss Lockhart | |
| Ann Way | ... | Miss Gaunt | |
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Molly Weir | ... | Miss Allison Kerr |
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A liberated young schoolteacher at an Edinburgh girls' school in the period between the two wars, instructs her girls on the ways of life. Ignoring the more mundane subjects, she teaches them of love, politics and art. Her affairs with two male teachers become known and she finds herself fighting to keep her job. She believes that she can always count on the 100% support of her favourite pupils, but one of them does not feel that Miss Jean Brodie is in her "prime" any more. No longer swayed by her teacher's eloquence, she begins to learn about life and love herself. Written by Rhino <rhino@blueyonder.co.uk>
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26 February 1969 (UK) See more »Also Known As:
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Gordon Lowther: Morning girls. Good Morning.
Sandy: There's Miss Brodie!
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(uncredited)
from Rigoletto
written by Giuseppe Verdi
(sung by Miss Brodie, Mr Lowther and the girls in the garden, mostly with la-la-la lyrics)
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At the end when Sandy walks out of the school, she passes a 1960s-style concrete lamp post. See more »Quotes
[first lines]Gordon Lowther: Morning girls. Good Morning.
Sandy: There's Miss Brodie!
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Crazy Credits
Opening credits prologue: EDINBURGH 1932 See more »Soundtracks
La donna è mobile(uncredited)
from Rigoletto
written by Giuseppe Verdi
(sung by Miss Brodie, Mr Lowther and the girls in the garden, mostly with la-la-la lyrics)
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Beautifully filmed and acted by all the performers, this is a knock-out film. Maggie Smith is incredible right down to her Morningside accent. The other players hold their own against her powerhouse performance. The Edinburgh locations are great and the film has a remarkably nostalgic quality that reflects Brodie's romanticism. A beautiful Rod McKuen score as well! A must see film. An interesting comparison can be made with Dead Poet's Society, which has a male teacher in an all male school (compared to a female teacher in an all girl's school). In Brodie, unorthodox irresponsible teaching is condemned while in Dead Poet's Society it is valorized. In both the teaching methods bring about the death of a student and the school's reaction is similar. The film makers, however, come down on opposite sides in their attitudes toward the teachers