M. Chipping, professeur dans un collège anglais, mène une existence de solitaire. De nature discrète, il ne parvient à s'imposer auprès de ses élèves. Lors d'un voyage en Autriche, il tombe sous le charme de la séduisante Kathie. Il l'épouse et se métamorphose grâce à son amour. Il parvient alors à gagner le respect des écoliers. Mais Kathie meurt en donnant le jour à leur enfant. Monsieur Chipping, que sa femme appelait "Chips", se consacre alors à sa vocation d'enseignant. C'est alors que la guerre éclate..
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..
Drama about a schoolmaster at a pre-war public school..
In the later years of the nineteenth century Latin master Mr. Chipping is the mainstay of Brookfields boys boarding school, a good teacher and a kindly person but he is considered to be married to the job so that it is a surprise when, on a walking holiday, he meets and marries the vivacious Kathie,who becomes his helpmate at the school but sadly pre-deceases him. Just before World War One insensitive new headmaster Ralston tries to edge Chipping out but the boys rally and Sir John Rivers, an old pupil of Chipping's and now head of the board of governors, invites him to stay and,when the war breaks out and Ralston joins up, Chipping becomes the new head..
Mr. Chips, an aged teacher, recounts his story of love, loss and learning over his decades-long tenure at Brookfield, an all-boys English boarding school. A new opera based on the 1930s novel, reimagined for film..
