The Children's Hour Page #8

Synopsis: Karen Wright and Martha Dobie are best friends since college and they own the boarding school Wright and Dobie School for Girls with twenty students. They are working hard as headmistresses and teachers to grow the school and make it profitable. Karen is engaged with the local doctor Joe Cardin, who is the nephew of the powerful and influential Mrs. Amelia Tilford. While the spiteful and liar Mary, who is Amelia's granddaughter and a bad influence to the other girls, is punished by Karen after telling a lie, Martha has an argument with her snoopy aunt Lily Mortar in another room. Lily accuses Martha of being jealous and having an unnatural relationship with Karen. Mary's roommate Rosalie Wells overhears the shouting and tells Mary what Mrs. Mortar had said about her niece. The malicious Mary accuses Karen and Martha of being lesbians to her grandmother and Amelia spreads the gossip to the parents of the students that withdraw them from the school. Karen and Martha lose a lawsuit agains
Genre: Drama, Romance
Director(s): William Wyler
Actors: Audrey Hepburn, Shirley MacLaine, James Garner, Miriam Hopkins
Production: MGM Home Entertainment
  Nominated for 5 Oscars. Another 1 win & 6 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.8
Rotten Tomatoes:
86%
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Year:
1961
108 min
2,523 Views

wouldn't answer my call.

But I've spoken to Judge Potter.

He'll hold a hearing and

reverse the court decision.

There'll be a public apology and

an explanation in the papers.

The damage suit, of course,

will be paid to you in full.

And anymore that you'll be

kind enough to take from me.

So you've come here to

relieve your conscience.

A public apology and money paid,

and you can rest your head again.

Don't rest it! You've

come to the wrong place!

There's nothing we want

from you, Mrs. Tilford.

There's no relief that

can be bought for me.

I didn't come here for that.

I swear to God, I didn't.

There must be something I can do.

Please?

Please, help me!

Help you?

Please go, Mrs. Tilford.

We don't want you here!

I'm going away someplace

to begin again.

Will you come with me?

We can find work now.

Thank you.

Let's talk about it tomorrow.

I want to go to sleep.

Martha!

Martha?

Karen, is Martha with you?

Her door is locked.

I don't understand.

"The Lord bless you and keep you

"and make His face

to shine upon you

"and give you peace.

"Both now and evermore."

Goodbye, Martha.

I'll miss you with all my heart.

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John Michael Hayes

John Michael Hayes (11 May 1919 – 19 November 2008) was an American screenwriter, who scripted several of Alfred Hitchcock's films in the 1950s. more…

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