The Chalk Garden

Starring: Kerr, Deborah and Mills, Hayley

Product Description

A mysterious governess guides an English teen who lives elegantly with her grandmother. Directed by Ronald Neame. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: DVD
• Language: English
• Release Date: October 2014
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Publisher: Allied Vaughn
• Director: Neame, Ronald
• Starring: Kerr, Deborah, Mills, Hayley
• Number of Disks: 1
• Other Video Info: DVD
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.5" x 5.4"

Customer Reviews

The judge appears to be sleeping.

I periodically watch this movie based on a play by Enid Bagnold, who also wrote the novel “National Velvet”. Everyone is well cast. You can see each one of these characters in the real world. The interaction is superb. They had no choice but to place the story in that location to show the chalk. Now let's get down to specifics. I like action, and this movie has plenty of paraffin. I think Deborah Kerr does well in “King Solomon's Mines” (1950); however, I think she does better acting as Miss Madrigal, who eventually straightens out relationships between the people she works for. Hailey Mills and John Mills are real-life father and daughter. The one spot in the movie that you forget it is a movie is when Laurel finds out who Miss Madrigal really is and almost gives her away. You can feel what Laurel does at that moment, and it is no longer just a movie. You are there. Again, Miss Madrigal must reveal her identity to Mrs. St. Maugham for Laurel's sake, as Laurel listens from outside. The title gets its name from the garden they are trying to plant, which will not take root because the ground is sterile chalk. Likewise, Laurel was brought up in the same environment.