The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (film)

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is a 1969 BritishAmerican drama DeLuxe Color film, based on the novel of the same name by Muriel Spark.

Jean Brodie Maggie Smith is a teacher in the junioraged section of the Marcia Blaine School for Girls in Edinburgh, Scotland in the 1930s. Brodie is known for her tendency to stray from the hard knowledge of the schools curriculum, to romanticize fascist leaders like Benito Mussolini and Francisco Franco, and to believe herself to be in the prime of life. Brodie devotes her time and energy to her four special 12yearold junior school girls, called the Brodie Set Sandy Pamela Franklin, Monica Shirley Steedman, Jenny Diane Grayson and Mary Jane Carr.The set often go to art museums, theatre, concerts, have picnics on the school lawn, among other things, which rather upsets the schools austere headmistress, Emmeline Mackay Celia Johnson, who dislikes the fact that the girls are cultured to the exclusion of hard knowledge, and the Brodie girls seem precocious for their age. She also seems to have a running grudge against Brodie, who has tenure and had been at Marcia Blaine for six years prior to Mackay being appointed headmistress. Miss Brodie boasts to her girls that the only way she will stop teaching if she is assassinated. ........

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