| 词条 | The Chalk Garden (film) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| name = The Chalk Garden | image = "The_Chalk_Garden"_(1964).jpg | image_size = | caption = Theatrical release poster | director = Ronald Neame | producer = Ross Hunter | screenplay = John Michael Hayes | based on = The Chalk Garden play by Enid Bagnold | narrator = | starring = Deborah Kerr Hayley Mills | music = Malcolm Arnold | cinematography = Arthur Ibbetson | editing = Jack Harris | distributor = Rank Film Distributors Universal Pictures | released = 21 May 1964 | runtime = 106 minutes | country = United Kingdom United States | language = English | budget = | gross = est. $3,250,000 (US/ Canada)[1] | preceded_by = | followed_by = }} The Chalk Garden is a 1964 British-American film directed by Ronald Neame. It stars Deborah Kerr and Hayley Mills and is an adaptation of the 1955 play of the same name by Enid Bagnold.[2] DVD Release 1.10.14 Plot summaryAn elderly woman hires a governess, Miss Madrigal (Deborah Kerr), with a mysterious past to look after her disturbed, deceitful, and self-centered teenage granddaughter Laurel (Hayley Mills), who has seen off many previous governesses. Laurel feels intense sexual jealousy and resentment of her beautiful mother who lives elsewhere, and has been taught by her Grandmother to hate her mother. When Miss Madrigal arrives, Laurel is intrigued by her apparent lack of a past, and tries to investigate who she is and to "expose" her. Through this investigating, Laurel helps precipitate the climax of the film where it is revealed that Miss Madrigal was convicted of murdering her step-sister 15 years ago and was sentenced to death, though the sentence was commuted and she'd been in prison since then. Instead of running away from this fact once it is revealed, Miss Madrigal uses this painful revelation to convince Laurel and her Grandmother that she was once like Laurel, and that Laurel should leave her Grandmother's toxic environment and go to live with her mother where she can grow into a better person. Laurel understands Miss Madrigal's self-sacrifice as an example of love, and follows her advice to live with her mother. Cast
ProductionThe film was announced in May 1962. Originally Joanne Woodward as to star with Hayley Mills and Ross Hunter wanted Katharine Hepburn to co star.[3] HonorsEdith Evans was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. She lost to Lila Kedrova in Zorba the Greek. Arthur Ibbetson was nominated for the BAFTA award for best cinematography. Awards
Critical receptionThe New York Times wrote, "a GREAT deal of scrupulous cultivation and orderly shaping of the plot have been done to make a film of...Enid Bagnold's eccentric British play...the tangle of its arrangement and the overgrowth of its characters have all been trimmed and weeded by some prudent and skillful hands to make the bright, sweet and aromatic picture that opened at the Music Hall yesterday...Ronald Neame, who has directed the picture, and John Michael Hayes, who has written the script, present us with a cozy, compact drama that follows a comfortable, sentimental line...There are moments, however, when the sharpness of Miss Bagnold's oblique slant on life cuts through, usually in glints of hidden mischief or in lines of slashing paradox and wit. When these come, the film sparkles briefly beyond the brightness of its Technicolored hues." [4]References1. ^"Big Rental Pictures of 1964", Variety, 6 January 1965 p 39. Please note this figure is rentals accruing to distributors not total gross. 2. ^{{cite web|url=http://allmovie.com/work/the-chalk-garden-8803 |title=The Chalk Garden (1964) - Trailers, Reviews, Synopsis, Showtimes and Cast |publisher=AllMovie |date= |accessdate=2014-03-31}} 3. ^FILMMAKER TALKS ABOUT 5 PROJECTS: Hunter, Here in Visit, Tells of MacDonald-Eddy Plan 'Tammy Takes Over' Is Next Joanne Woodward to Star British Film Opens Today 7 Vie for Golden Laurel Albert Lamorisse VisitsBy HOWARD THOMPSON. New York Times 16 May 1962: 33. 4. ^{{cite web|last=Crowther |first=Bosley |url=https://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9A06E1DD1130E033A25751C2A9639C946591D6CF&action=click&module=Search®ion=searchResults%230&version=&url=http%3A%2F%2Fquery.nytimes.com%2Fsearch%2Fsitesearch%2F%3Fvertical%3Dmovies%2F%23%2Fthe%2Bchalk%2Bgarden%2F |title=Movie Review - The Chalk Garden - Screen: 'Chalk Garden':Adaptation of '55 Play Opens at Music Hall |publisher=NYTimes.com |date=1964-05-22 |accessdate=2014-03-31}} External links
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