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Children's Hour, The (1961) Rank 3 Reviews
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Audrey Hepburn and Shirley MacLaine star as two schoolteachers who find themselves at the centre of a malicious rumour in this faithful adaptation of the Lillian Hellman play. A landmark film for its frankness about lesbianism and homophobia, co-starring ...read the complete Children's Hour movie review at Channel 4 Film
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Bright Lights Film Journal review
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by sister13 ""mo... on May 17, 2009
Quality of the cd is excellent and the case was in very good conditon.
CD was received in a matter of a couple days. Movie was worth waiting for. Thank You ...
by Yolanda Jones on April 13, 2009
I've always liked this movie but did not want it on Video Cassestte. I ordered and it was shipped to me in a few days, in the condition descripted. Great Service. ...
by Pamelmcfadden on April 06, 2009
James Garner pales against the pairing of these two great stars! Great story - and ...
by Elizabeth Kadavi ... on March 30, 2009
Wow,what a movie!! I hadn't heard of this movie before,until a couple of nights ago when TCM ran it at 3 in the morning.I was restless,couldn't sleep and flipped my TV on and caught it right as it was starting-and I was rivited to the TV.I'm SO glad that ...
by Bob Waskiewicz on February 19, 2009
I first saw this film when I was 10.It was on Saturday morning,and the TV station thought it was a kids movie,and just before the end of the movie it went blank,and another movie was replaced.
Now I know why this happened.
"The Childrens hour" is almost ...
by Byron Kolln on January 28, 2009
Based on Lillian Hellman's controversial play (which had previously been filmed in 1936 as "These Three"), THE CHILDREN'S HOUR is a solid piece of dramatic filmmaking. Audrey Hepburn and Shirley MacLaine offer some of their most unguarded, riveting ...
by Andrew Ellington on September 15, 2008
This is one of those movies I didn't expect to hit me the way that it did. I love Hepburn and MacLaine and so I was anticipating finally getting to sit down and watch this film, but I truly had no idea what to expect. Hepburn was such a wonderfully ...
by Daniel G. Madigan on September 11, 2008
The Children's Hour comes from an older play by Lillian Hellmann (1920,s), and it was given a bad film And it treatment in the 30,s with Miriam Hopkins and Merle Oberon. This was not the play at all, and the performances are not that good.
William ...
by Katharina on May 30, 2008
Audrey Hepburn has always been one of my favorites. In this film, in the company of Shirley MacLaine and James Garner, she is again phenomenal. The entire cast is truly brilliant, not to mention the story itself.
Even though it's been years since the ...
by Charles Finn-neue... on March 23, 2008
I first saw this movie when I was 18 my bf and i rented the video tape and watched it
I cried so hard and the end it is a very emotional movie all the actors are great and you just want to wring that girls neck.
it is about a lie that had just a grain of ...
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