

Goodbye, Mr. Chips
He is a shy schoolmaster. She is a music hall star. They marry and immediately have 283 children...all boys!
Academy Award-honoree Peter O'Toole stars in this musical classic about a prim English schoolmaster who learns to show his compassion through the help of an outgoing showgirl. O'Toole, who received his fourth Oscar-nomination for this performance, is joined by '60s pop star Petula Clark and fellow Oscar-nominee Michael Redgrave.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $9M
- Box office
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- Language
- English
- based on novel or book
- boarding school
- world war ii
- forbidden love
- vacation
- love
- teacher student relationship
- teaching
- schoolteacher
- teacher hero
- music hall
- boys' school
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- TheatricalG5 Nov 1969
United KingdomGB
- TheatricalU25 Nov 1969
GermanyDE
- Theatrical626 Mar 1970
RomaniaRO
- Theatricalcinema: „Scala” și „Capitol” (București)13 Mar 1972
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Goodbye, Mr. Chips was released on 5 November 1969.
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CinemaSerf
3/23/2025
I suppose if you are going to reimagine the classic 1939 version of this story, you have to ditch some of that film’s most charming elements and bring it up to date. That’s what Herbert Ross and Leslie Bricusse have done here and for the most part it sort of works. Peter O’Toole takes on the role of the fastidious Latin master at the all-boys “Brookfield” school where he is neither much liked by the staff nor much re…
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