Genre:
Drama
Release Date: 01/30/2007
Dubbed: English
Sound: DD2
Run Time: 93 Minutes
Flags: Suitable for Children
Distributor/Studio: Alpha Video
Something of a distaff
Mr. Chips, schoolteacher
Ella Bishop (
Martha Scott) devotes her life to her work, ageing 50 years (from 19 to 69) in the course of the film. At a testimonial dinner on the occasion of her retirement,
Miss Bishop's former students wonder why their beloved teacher never married. In flashback, the audience learns that town grocer
Sam (
William Gargan) has carried a torch for her for five decades, while she obliviously pursued unfortunate romantic relationships with weak-willed
Delbert Thompson (
Donald Douglas) and unhappily married
John Stevens (
Sidney Blackmer). Adapted by
Stephen Vincent Benet from the melancholy novel by
Bess Streeter Aldrich,
Cheers for Miss Bishop was not only a
tour de force for
Scott, but also represented the screen debut of another young character actress,
Rosemary De Camp.
~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
