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A film adaptation of Edith Bagnold's play stars Deborah Kerr as Miss Madrigal, the secretive new governess of "problem child" Laurel (Hayley Mills). Both Madrigal and faithful butler Maitland (John Mills) are aware that Laurel's atrocious behaviour stems from her belief that her oft-married mother (Elizabeth Sellars) does not love her. Madrigal determines to straighten out Laurel before she becomes totally unmanageable and hurts someone else. She knows what she's doing; Madrigal has just been released from a long prison term, having been charged with the murder of her stepsister. Dame Edith Evans steals every scene she's in as Laurel's wealthy grandmother, who is pulled away from tending her precious garden only when it appears that she has a murderess in her house. The Chalk Garden represented a "stretch" for Hayley Mills, who previously had been confined to sugary-sweet Disney heroines.Product Identifiers
ProducerRoss Hunter
EAN5060697920536
eBay Product ID (ePID)27048551475
Product Key Features
ActorLally Bowers, Elizabeth Sellars, Hayley Mills, Edith Evans, John Mills, Deborah Kerr, Felix Aylmer
Film/TV TitleThe Chalk Garden
DirectorRonald Neame
FormatBlu-ray
Release Year2021
LanguageEnglish
GenreDrama
Run Time106 Mins
Additional Product Features
CertificatePG
Number of Discs1
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
ComposerMalcolm Arnold
ScreenwriterJohn Michael Hayes
CinematographerArthur Ibbetson
Sound sourceDolby Digital
Movie/TV TitleThe Chalk Garden