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Chalk Garden
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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786300186125
Format: Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
ISBN: 6300186121
Label: Universal Studios
Languages: English (Original Language), Analog
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Universal Studios
Release Date: March 01, 1992
Studio: Universal Studios
Theatrical Release Date: May 21, 1964
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Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Poignant Drama With Intrigue And Humor
Enid Bagnold's play, directed for the big screen by Ronald Neame in 1964, is a touching story about a mystery woman, Madrigal (Deborah Kerr) who answers an ad for a companion for a teenage girl. But this is no prim and proper young English lady - Laurel (Hayley Mills) is a troubled youth who resides with her wealthy grandmother (wonderfully portrayed by Dame Edith Evans, who plays a crusty aristocratic Briton like no one can), and who spins lies, sets fires and steals without a thought to consequences. ... Read More
Rating:  - Good Melodrama, But Something is Missing ...
Hayley Mills does a good job of milking all the emotion there is to be milked from the furious, histrionic teenager she plays in the *Chalk Garden*, and I always enjoy Deborah Kerr in her repressed governess-type roles. But a lot of their interaction just rings hollow, somehow--maybe because Mills is so insufferably bratty that it's hard to believe Kerr isn't moved to, at the very least, occasional bouts of unconstrained rage. Indeed, Kerr is so prim and controlled that one tends to question the movie's ... Read More
Rating:  - Oh, Hayley, you tease!
Classy 1964 psychological soaper pits school girl against governess Deborah Kerr. Story depicts Hayley as a little squirt, but she looks womanly. Her impressive beachwear scene will promote heavy breathing and multiple replays.
Rating: - Excellent
The film is quite good. I enjoyed it, the actors/actress' fit their parts extremely well. The music is a bit too much. It was like DUM DUM DUMMMMM made you'd think someone had died or something but turned out she was just asking a question.
Rating: - Inhospitable To Growth
Edith Evans is the wealthy grandmother to troubled teen Hayley Mills. Mills lives with her grandmother, since Evans is unhappy with her daughter's second marriage and wants to protect her granddaughter. John Mills works as the butler and Deborah Kerr is the latest in a long line of governesses hired. Hayley has a way of scaring them away. Kerr seems to have arrived without much of a past or family ties (but that becomes clearer later). Hayley is angry at her mother and the world and feels very isolated ... Read More
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