Greer Garson, John Mills, Judith Furse

One more terrific film from a terrific year for movies--1939, the year of Gone with the Wind, The Wizard of Oz, and Stagecoach, among others--Sam Wood's Goodbye Mr. Chips ...( read more  read more... )is a deeply stirring work starring Robert Donat as the old schoolmaster who looks back upon his life. Told mostly in flashbacks, the film wraps itself around a history of an older England as seen through the generations of boys who pass through Mr. Chips's classroom. Greer Garson is her usual classy, sexy-intelligent self as Donat's wife, their earlier courtship one of the film's highlights. Get out the Kleenex for this one. --Tom Keogh

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Unrated, 114 min.

Directed by: Sam Wood

Release Date: July 28, 1939

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DVD Release Date: February 3, 2004

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  • December 29, 2008
    Arthur Chipping is certianly one of the greatest heros ever to grace the screen, played by Robert Donat in his Oscar winning perfromance. Goodbye Mr. Chips is an unsung classic, a golden tearjerker, a deeply affecting movie. One of my new favourities.
  • March 14, 2008
    Actually a really good movie by todays standards.....
  • September 11, 2007
    Not bad really but I didn't really care for the book and I didn't care for the film either.
  • November 20, 2009
    Great, great film. You'll cry at the end.
  • November 18, 2009
    I have decided to copy an idea from one of my Flixster friends (RThornhill) and leave a comment with each of the movies that have been recommended to me, that I choose to mark as "wanting to see". This comment will include the username of the person who recommended the particula...( read more)r film to me. Putting this comment will allow the people who recommend movies to me to be able to see which movies I have marked as "Want To See It" - based on their recommendation. It will also allow people to see that I don't ignore recommendations, I do enjoy recommendations and take a lot of the recommendations I get into consideration!

    This film was recommended by RThornhill. Thanks!
  • November 10, 2009
    If you like warmhearted optimistic films like me, you should say "Hello to this Goodbye"....
  • August 27, 2009
    Brilliant film. A pity they don't make them like this any more
  • August 21, 2009
    Donat in perfect in this classic drama.
  • June 20, 2009
    Always makes me blub. Never fails. Get the hankies out.
  • June 10, 2009
    I absolutely love this film... it makes me cwy :'(

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