Adapted by Sir Terence Rattigan from his 1948 play, Anthony Asquith's The Browning Version is a poignant examination of repression and redemption set in the English public school system.
Classics master Andrew Crocker-Harris is preparing to retire early due to ill-health. Considered a supercilious bully by his students and a stuffy buffoon by his colleagues, the "Crock", as he is known, has distanced himself from all human emotion - due, in part, to his wife carrying on with one of the younger masters. However, when a student thanks him with a gift of Browning's translation of Agamemnon, the Crock is stirred to action.
Michael Redgrave excels as the maligned schoolmaster in this distinguished drawing-room drama by one of the 20th century's greatest playwrights.
