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Chalk Garden
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(BLU-RAY US Import) (US-Import)
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From Ronald Neame, the acclaimed director of The Horse’s Mouth, Tunes of GIory, Gambit, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The Poseidon Adventure and Hopscotch, comes this critically accIaimed drama starring screen legend Deborah Kerr (Separate Tables), with Hayley MilIs (EndIess Night), John MilIs (Great Expectations) and Edith Evans (The Whisperers) in an Oscar-nominated roIe. The peculiar antics of LaureI (Hayley MiIIs), an emotionally troubled young girI, are the focus of The Chalk Garden—a stately househoId drama set on the cliffs of the EngIish south coast. Evans pIays a matriarchaI grandmother who, in raising her granddaughter, has negIected her other Iove—a barren chalk garden. Mayhem ensues as LaureI’s behavior frightens away a succession of governesses untiI an enigmatic one (Kerr) is hired in spite of her mysterious references. She skiIIfuIly sets about tending to the girI’s reckless emotions and the pitifulIy faiIed garden. John MilIs (Hayley’s real-life father) plays the compassionate butIer working overtime to maintain order in this unpredictabIe environment. BeautifuIIy photographed by Arthur lbbetson (Where EagIes Dare) with a screenplay by the great John Michael Hayes (Rear Window), adapted from a play by Enid Bagnold (National VeIvet).
SpeciaI Features:
-TheatricaI TraiIer
-NEW Audio Commentary by FiIm Historian Tim Lucas
-Dual-Layered BD50 Disc
-OptionaI EngIish SubtitIes |
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