The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. (1969 film)

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Eccentric well-meaning Scottish schoolteacher Jean Brodie's extravagantly romantic ideas about life -and love -overly impress her young pupils and bring her into direct conflict with her school's conservative headmistress Miss MacKay.  Maggie Smith ... Jean Brodie Robert Stephens ... Teddy Lloyd Pamela Franklin ... Sandy Gordon Jackson ... Gordon Lowther Celia Johnson ... Miss Mackay Diane Grayson ... Jenny Jane Carr ... Mary McGregor Shirley Steedman ... Monica Lavinia Lang ... Emily Carstairs Antoinette Biggerstaff ... Helen McPhee Margo Cunningham ... Miss Campbell Isla Cameron ... Miss McKenzie Rona Anderson ... Miss Lockhart Ann Way ... Miss Gaunt Molly Weir ... Miss Allison Kerr Helena Gloag ... Miss Kerr (as Helena Cloag) John Dunbar ... Mr Burrage Heather Seymour ... Clara Lesley Paterson ... Prefect (as Leslie Patterson) Barbie Denham ... School Girl Joyce Everson ... Teacher Muriel Greenslade ... Teacher Kristin Hatfield ... Schoolgirl Ann Michelle ... Schoolgirl Stephanie Mildenhall ... Child Antonia Moss ... Schoolgirl Jill Riddick ... Schoolgirl Diane Robillard ... Schoolgirl Janette Sattler ... Schoolgirl Guy Standeven ... Teacher Reg Thomason ... Teacher Roberta Tovey ... Schoolgirl Helen Worth ... Schoolgirl   Directed by Ronald Neame

Transcript

00:01:00Morning girls.

00:01:07Morning.

00:01:11Morning.

00:01:15Morning.

00:01:19Morning.

00:01:23Morning.

00:01:28Morning.

00:01:32Morning.

00:01:36Morning.

00:01:40Morning.

00:01:46Good morning, Miss Mordy, Miss Mordy.

00:02:14Oh, good morning, Mr. Lover, Mr. Love.

00:02:24Will you put that handkerchief...

00:02:25Yes, Miss Mordy.

00:02:26Put that on the desk.

00:02:27Yes, Miss Mordy.

00:02:38Come on.

00:02:41Good morning, Mr. Lover.

00:02:42Good morning, Miss Mordy.

00:02:43Now, you take charge of these two new girls, please,

00:02:45and see that they know what they have to do.

00:02:46Yes, Miss Mordy.

00:02:47Thank you so much.

00:02:49Now, Sheila, there's no need to rush.

00:03:02Lord, behold us with Thy blessing,

00:03:07once again assembled here.

00:03:12All would be a footstep spreading

00:03:16in Thy love and favor here.

00:03:21Still protect us, still protect us

00:03:25by Thy presence ever here.

00:03:31For Thy mercy we adore Thee,

00:03:36for this rest upon our way.

00:03:40Lord, again we bow before Thee,

00:03:45speak of Thee once day by day.

00:03:50Mind and spirit, mind and spirit,

00:03:55with Thy joys and gifts arrayed.

00:04:01Keep the spell of our affection

00:04:05still alive in every heart.

00:04:10Faith is now in our direction

00:04:14for our all possible part.

00:04:19Tell Thy children, tell Thy children,

00:04:24hear that from their father heart.

00:04:29Great temptations, fatal power,

00:04:34shielding all with guard and care.

00:04:38Save them every careless hour,

00:04:43save us from our sensual snare.

00:04:48Thou our Savior, Thou our Savior,

00:04:52still our daily strength prepare.

00:05:04Here comes Miss Brodie.

00:05:21Morning, girls.

00:05:24Morning, Miss Brodie.

00:05:27Sit down.

00:05:30Who opened the window?

00:05:32Whoever opened the window has opened it too wide.

00:05:35Six inches is perfectly adequate.

00:05:37More is vulgar, for sooth one should have

00:05:39an innate sense of these things, of what is suitable.

00:05:42More air, will you please?

00:05:47Thank you.

00:05:49I see we have two new girls this term.

00:05:52Will the two new girls please stand up.

00:05:57You are?

00:05:58Emily Carstairs, Miss Brodie.

00:06:00Emily Carstairs.

00:06:04There, you are inscribed.

00:06:07Would you like to tell us something about yourself, Emily?

00:06:10I'm a girl guide, Miss Brodie.

00:06:12I have six merit badges.

00:06:14One for not tying, one for flag folding, one...

00:06:17Indeed.

00:06:18For those who like that sort of thing,

00:06:20that is the right thing to do.

00:06:23And this is Mary McGregor.

00:06:26Well, what about you, Mary?

00:06:28You don't look to me like a girl who ties knots.

00:06:31No, Miss Brodie, but my brother does.

00:06:36That is as it should be.

00:06:39But what about you?

00:06:40What are your interests?

00:06:42I haven't got any.

00:06:47I don't think...

00:06:49That is what I am for, Mary McGregor.

00:06:52To provide you with interests.

00:06:56You may sit down now, Mary.

00:07:05Little girls, I am in the business of putting old heads on young shoulders.

00:07:11Little girls, I am in the business of putting old heads on young shoulders

00:07:16and all my pupils are the crème de la crème.

00:07:20Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life.

00:07:25You girls are my vocation.

00:07:27If I were to receive a proposal of marriage tomorrow

00:07:30from the Lord Lion, King of Arms, I would decline it.

00:07:34I am dedicated to you in my prime.

00:07:38And my summer in Italy has convinced me that I am truly in my prime.

00:07:43Emily, Mary McGregor, you are new to this institution.

00:07:46It is possible you will hear my teaching methods decried in certain quarters

00:07:51as being unsuitable for a conservative school like Mount St. Blaine.

00:07:55That is to say, a school dedicated to the status quo.

00:07:58Can anyone define the status quo?

00:08:03Sandy?

00:08:05Does it mean staying the same, Miss Brodie?

00:08:08Precisely. Staying the same to the point of petrification.

00:08:13P-E-T-R-I-F-I-C-A-T-I-O-N.

00:08:22Petrification. I do not intend to devote my prime to petrification.

00:08:27Prop up your books in case of intruders.

00:08:30If there are intruders, we are doing our history.

00:08:33We will not do our history.

00:08:35Can anyone tell me who is the greatest Italian painter?

00:08:39Leonardo da Vinci, Miss Brodie.

00:08:41That is incorrect, Jenny.

00:08:44The answer is Giotto. He is my favourite.

00:08:51Observe little girl, Stanley Baldwin,

00:08:55who got in as prime minister and got out again ere long.

00:09:00His bride mistress, Miss Mackay,

00:09:03retains him on the walls because she believes in the slogan,

00:09:06safety first.

00:09:08But safety does not come first.

00:09:11Goodness, truth and beauty come first.

00:09:19One's prime brings one's insight into these things.

00:09:23One's prime is the moment one is born for.

00:09:27Little girls must be on the alert to recognise your prime

00:09:30at whatever time it may occur and live it to the full.

00:09:36Season of mist and mellow fruitfulness.

00:09:46I wanted to tell you of a moment in my life when I was very young,

00:09:51younger even than the man himself.

00:09:54His name was Hugh.

00:09:57I fell deeply in love with Hugh in the last year of the war,

00:10:02but he fell on Flanders Field.

00:10:05Helen McPhee, are you thinking of doing a day's washing?

00:10:08No, Miss Brodie.

00:10:09You have your sleeves rolled up, roll them down at once.

00:10:12I won't have to do with girls who roll up the sleeves of their blouses.

00:10:15We are civilised beings.

00:10:18He fell on Flanders Field.

00:10:22He fell the week before armistice was declared.

00:10:25He fell like an autumn leaf.

00:10:29Remind me to show you a map of Flanders

00:10:32and the spot where my lover was laid to sleep forever before you were born.

00:10:40Come autumn, stay pensive in yellow and grey

00:10:44and soothe me with tidings of nature's decay.

00:10:49Robert Burns.

00:10:52Hugh fell like an autumn leaf.

00:10:57After the armistice, people were dancing and singing for joy in the streets,

00:11:02but Hugh was one of the flowers of the forest,

00:11:08lying in his grave.

00:11:12What seems to be ailing the spirits of Monica McLaren, isn't it?

00:11:16Monica cries easily.

00:11:18Well, Monica, perhaps you can tell me why you are crying.

00:11:21She's moved by a story I have been telling of the Battle of Flodden.

00:11:25Crying over a history lesson?

00:11:28It is a moving story.

00:11:31The night before Flodden at Mercat Cross, beside St Giles,

00:11:34a man was killed in the battle.

00:11:38The night before Flodden at Mercat Cross, beside St Giles,

00:11:42a ghostly herald was heard reading the names of all the noble families of Scotland,

00:11:46beginning with the king.

00:11:48After the battle, there was not one family who had not suffered grievous loss,

00:11:54as you well know, Miss Mackay.

00:11:56To be sure.

00:11:58Well, girls, I know you're all going to work hard at every subject this year.

00:12:03A good beginning makes a good ending.

00:12:06I hope you all had splendid holidays,

00:12:08and I look forward to reading your splendid essays on how you spent them.

00:12:13You shouldn't be crying over a history lesson at your age.

00:12:17My word.

00:12:28Thank you, Janet.

00:12:32Good morning, Miss Mackay.

00:12:37You may sit down, girls.

00:12:42You did well, Monica, not to answer the question put to you.

00:12:46It is well when in difficulty to say never a word,

00:12:49neither black nor white.

00:12:51But you did, Miss Brodie.

00:12:53You were in difficulty and you made up about Flodden.

00:12:56Sandy, please try to do as I say and not as I do.

00:13:00Remember, you are a child, Sandy.

00:13:03Remember, you are a child, Sandy.

00:13:06And far from your prime.

00:13:08BELL RINGS

00:13:34I hear I must congratulate you on the birth of another child.

00:13:37Yes, another daughter.

00:13:39Have you never heard of Mary Stokes,

00:13:41architect for constructive birth control on racial progress?

00:13:44Ah, yes, an estimable woman.

00:13:46But you see, my church enjoys me to go forth and be fruitful.

00:13:49I am aware of your unfortunate affiliation with the Church of Rome.

00:13:52I doubt, however, whether that body gives the same interpretation

00:13:55to go forth that you do.

00:13:57My church understands human imperfection and forgives it.

00:14:00Why can't you?

00:14:02I am not interested in human imperfection.

00:14:04I am interested in beauty, in art, in truth.

00:14:07In art and beauty, maybe.

00:14:10In truth, no.

00:14:12Oh!

00:14:14Oh!

00:14:16This is outrageous!

00:14:18The truth, Jean, is that you bounced into bed with an artist

00:14:21but you were horrified when you woke up with a man.

00:14:23Mmm! Mmm! Mmm!

00:14:25Release me instantly!

00:14:27I finished your portrait. Come back to the studio.

00:14:29I can't. I have another engagement.

00:14:31Well, break it. I can't possibly.

00:14:33I'm... I'm... I'm going to Cremon.

00:14:35What for?

00:14:37Mr Lova has invited me to his estate at Cremon.

00:14:39Lova? He has a small boat.

00:14:42I'm invited to go sailing...

00:14:44on Sunday.

00:14:55What do you want me to do?

00:14:57Ravish you on the floor for the edification of your girls?

00:15:01Oh!

00:15:17Is this liver paste, Miss Brodie?

00:15:19It is pâté de foie gras.

00:15:21Pâté de foie gras.

00:15:23Oh, it must be marvellous to be French.

00:15:26The French have a genius for food.

00:15:28But I doubt French women will ever get the boot.

00:15:48I was quite emphatic about it.

00:15:51I'll not pull my punches, Miss Mackay, I said.

00:15:55Miss Brodie's girls are different.

00:15:57Oh, you said that.

00:15:59Oh, I said it all right. And I meant it.

00:16:02Thank you, Miss Lockhart.

00:16:04The Brodie set indeed.

00:16:06We girls refusing to wash their faces.

00:16:09Oh, Miss Brodie then found me...

00:16:11hasn't washed her face in 20 years.

00:16:14She looks clean enough from here.

00:16:17Miss Brodie prescribes cold cream.

00:16:22She always looks so extreme.

00:16:26This is my new girl, Mr. Lowther, Mary McGregor.

00:16:30Mr. Lowther, there's a great deal Mr. Lowther can teach you...

00:16:33about the modulation of your tone.

00:16:36Miss Brodie, I thought...

00:16:38that is, I hoped there might be time for a wee cup of tea...

00:16:41in the common room before the afternoon classes.

00:16:44Oh!

00:16:46How nice of you to ask.

00:16:48Oh!

00:16:50How nice of you to ask me, Mr. Lowther.

00:16:53Now, girls, I leave Mary McGregor in your charge.

00:17:00Thank you.

00:17:03Well, Mary McGregor, how much pocket money do you get?

00:17:07One and six a week.

00:17:09One and six?

00:17:11Your father gives you one and six.

00:17:13Mr. Ealing gives it to me.

00:17:15I don't have a father or mother.

00:17:18Who's Mr. Ealing?

00:17:20The bank. He's our guardian.

00:17:22He takes care of the money.

00:17:24Well, I'd like to be an orphan heiress...

00:17:26and get my pocket money from bankers that don't know any better.

00:17:29Does your brother get one and six, too?

00:17:32I don't know. He's 14.

00:17:35My brother has run away from four schools.

00:17:40Your brother sounds like a bad lot.

00:17:45So I thought that this Sunday...

00:17:47I would treat myself to one last day of sun and water.

00:17:51I wonder, Mr. Lowther, if you might be able to help me.

00:17:54In what way, Miss Brodie?

00:17:56You might know if there's any possibility...

00:17:58of my renting a little boat at Cremon.

00:18:00Oh, Miss Brodie, I have a boat.

00:18:02Oh, do you, Mr. Lowther?

00:18:04It would give me the greatest pleasure.

00:18:06I mean, if you would consider coming with me.

00:18:11Oh, but I couldn't trouble you, Mr. Lowther.

00:18:14Trouble? Oh, Miss Brodie, I would have asked you before many times...

00:18:17but I didn't want to seem to push myself.

00:18:21Please, Miss Brodie, say you'll come with me.

00:18:24Very well, Mr. Lowther.

00:18:26On Sunday?

00:18:28On Sunday.

00:18:33After church, of course.

00:18:35Oh, of course, Mr. Lowther.

00:18:41Grazie.

00:18:46Do you think Mr. Lloyd is the creme de la creme?

00:18:49Or Mr. Lowther?

00:18:51Neither. It's us.

00:18:53Little girls, if you will only listen to me...

00:18:55I will make of you the creme de la creme.

00:19:00My father says these are the happiest days of our lives.

00:19:04But if these are supposed to be the happiest...

00:19:06why does Miss Brodie say prime is best?

00:19:08Miss Brodie never got married like our mothers and fathers.

00:19:11They don't have primes.

00:19:13They have sexual intercourse.

00:19:15Oh, I don't like to think about it.

00:19:17You don't have to think about it.

00:19:19It happens on the spur of the moment.

00:19:27You read?

00:19:39How do you know?

00:19:41Of what?

00:19:43What you were saying.

00:19:45About how sexual intercourse happens on the spur of the moment.

00:19:48Because it happened to Teenie, that works in my father's shop...

00:19:51when she was out walking at Paddocky with her boyfriend.

00:19:54They had to get married.

00:19:56You'd think that the hour would have passed...

00:19:58by the time they'd got their clothes off.

00:20:00Yes.

00:20:02That's what I can't understand.

00:20:04People take their clothes off...

00:20:06in front of each other.

00:20:08It's so rude.

00:20:10They won't be put off their passion.

00:20:24Do you think Miss Brodie ever had sexual intercourse...

00:20:26with Hugh of Flanders Field...

00:20:28before he fell?

00:20:30I don't know.

00:20:32I don't think they did anything.

00:20:35I don't think they did anything like that.

00:20:37Their love was above all that.

00:20:40Well, Miss Brodie said they clung to each other...

00:20:44with passionate abandon on his last leave.

00:20:49I don't think they took their clothes off, though.

00:20:51Do you?

00:20:53No. I can't see it.

00:20:56Observe, little girls, the castle.

00:20:59It is built on a rock, a volcanic plug.

00:21:02It was through one of your windows...

00:21:04that Mary, Queen of Scots, lowered her infant son...

00:21:07straight down 187 feet...

00:21:09in a basket on a high wind.

00:21:11Mary McGregor, will you please do up your shoelace?

00:21:16Observe the litter.

00:21:18In Italy, Mussolini has put an end to litter in the streets.

00:21:21Do any of you little girls remember...

00:21:23what the followers of Mussolini are called?

00:21:25Fascisti.

00:21:27That is correct. F-A-S-C-I-S-T-I.

00:21:29Fascisti. And Mussolini is called...

00:21:31Il Duce.

00:21:33Il Duce. That is to say, the leader, Il Duce.

00:21:35We move on.

00:21:40Straighten your shoulders, Mary McGregor.

00:21:43All you girls must learn to walk with your heads up.

00:21:46Up.

00:21:48Like Sybil Fondyke, a woman of noble mean.

00:21:52In the Kirk of the Grey Friars...

00:21:54on the 20th day of February, 1638...

00:21:57the people of Scotland pledged themselves...

00:21:59to the Presbyterian faith.

00:22:01Many of them used their own blood...

00:22:03to sign the covenant.

00:22:05Oh, this part of Edinburgh is very rich in history.

00:22:08It is very romantic.

00:22:28Oh.

00:22:41So you see, little girls, you must always remember...

00:22:44you are citizens of Edinburgh, city of Hume and Boswell.

00:22:48You are Europeans, not dowdy provincials.

00:22:51Sandy, what on earth are you doing?

00:22:53Walking like Sybil Fondyke, Miss Brodie.

00:22:55You know, one day, Sandy, one day, you will go too far.

00:22:58Hello.

00:23:00Oh, Mr Lyde.

00:23:02Girls, you know Mr Lyde, the art master from the senior school?

00:23:05Yes.

00:23:07Good afternoon, girls.

00:23:09Mr Lyde has his studio somewhere in this neighbourhood, I believe.

00:23:12Number six, fourth floor front. Doors always open.

00:23:15I've been giving my girls an outing.

00:23:17We've been to the gallery. I've been telling them the story of Gauguin.

00:23:20Ah, the dangerous Miss Brodie.

00:23:23By whom, pray you, may I consider to be dangerous?

00:23:26It is the consensus.

00:23:28Your girls are said to be vastly informed in subjects irrelevant to the accepted curriculum.

00:23:32Most heinous of all, you are said to inculcate no team spirit.

00:23:35Is that true, girls?

00:23:37Does Miss Brodie incite you to shirk your duties on the hockey field?

00:23:40Praises like the team spirit are always employed to cut across individualism.

00:23:44Cleopatra knew nothing of the team spirit, if you read your Shakespeare.

00:23:49And where would the team spirit have got Anna Pavlova?

00:23:52The prima ballerina. It is the cordial ballet that had the team spirit.

00:23:56Oh, Miss Brodie, you are dangerous.

00:23:58Yes, well, we must away and catch our tram.

00:24:01I doubt we will get seats. It is 1932 and chivalry is dead.

00:24:06Miss Brodie.

00:24:08I do want you to come and see the picture, the one I told you about.

00:24:12What about next weekend?

00:24:14No, I'm afraid I'm going...

00:24:16Going to Cramond?

00:24:18My girls and I spend nearly every weekend at Cramond.

00:24:22Mr Louver is most hospitable.

00:24:25Good afternoon, Mr Lloyd.

00:24:28Come along, girls.

00:24:34Got it.

00:24:36There we are.

00:24:38Oh, there's some nice ones up here now.

00:24:40Get one a wee bit lower down.

00:24:42I'm watching. It's all right.

00:24:48Thank you.

00:25:19CREEPY MUSIC

00:25:32Creep to sheen.

00:25:38Miss Brodie's legs are longer than Mr Louver's.

00:25:41She'd have to wrap hers around his.

00:25:44First he puts out the light.

00:25:46Then their toes touch.

00:25:48Then... Miss Brodie.

00:25:51Miss Brodie.

00:25:53Miss Brodie says, Darling.

00:25:55She says, Mr Louver, you are the crème de la crème.

00:26:03We will have to watch Miss Brodie's stomach.

00:26:10It is the curve I am attempting to introduce you to.

00:26:14The curve here, in the straight,

00:26:17and here, and here in the arm.

00:26:21The curve flows through a painting like a river.

00:26:25It is sinuous, sensuous,

00:26:28epitomising everything that is female.

00:26:31The curve is a beckoning line.

00:26:34Here, and here,

00:26:38and here in the breast.

00:26:44And the belly, and the buttocks.

00:26:47Shut up.

00:26:49Go on, get along with your various sewing classes

00:26:52and your singing lessons. It's all you deserve.

00:27:15They flee from me who once did seek me out.

00:27:20I miss you, Jean.

00:27:22Shall I beg you?

00:27:24Please, come back.

00:27:26You have a family. I am a teacher.

00:27:29I had a family last June. You were a teacher last June.

00:27:32I am a teacher.

00:27:34I am a teacher.

00:27:36I am a teacher.

00:27:38I am a teacher.

00:27:40I am a teacher.

00:27:42I had a family last June. You were a teacher last June.

00:27:45My God, I wish I had a pound note for every time I've heard you say,

00:27:48I am a teacher, I am a teacher, first, last and always.

00:27:55What a firm reminder your postcard was.

00:27:58A postcard from Romantic Italy.

00:28:03The incomparable Giotto frescoes.

00:28:05How triumphantly his figures vibrate with life.

00:28:07Yours truly, Jay Brodie.

00:28:12This card from my passionate, abandoned enamorata.

00:28:22That night at the studio.

00:28:25That one night at the studio.

00:28:28I was pleased to feel that it was I who enjoyed the tutorial position.

00:28:33Come back, Jay.

00:28:36I need you.

00:28:42I need you.

00:29:00Mary McGregor.

00:29:02Mary McGregor, do you know what happened to Peeping Tom?

00:29:06His eyes were shriveled into darkness in his head and dropped before him.

00:29:13Poor old Tom.

00:29:19Don't worry, Jean. You've got your girls well trained.

00:29:21You're safe enough from that quarter.

00:29:23It's me you've got to worry about.

00:29:25Come to the studio.

00:29:27Come to pose again. Only to pose.

00:29:29You should be in front of my girls. Jenny is the pretty one.

00:29:32Hang your girls. It's you I want to peg.

00:29:34I will not come to the studio.

00:29:36Then to hell with you.

00:29:41Teddy, you know you really should paint Jenny.

00:29:46You'd like Jenny. She has a profile of deceptive purity.

00:29:55What's the matter with you, Mary? What's happened to you?

00:29:58Your face is all funny.

00:30:00I'm not funny.

00:30:02What's the matter with you, Mary? What's happened to you?

00:30:05Your face is all funny.

00:30:07No, it's not.

00:30:09Yes, it is, Mary. Very funny.

00:30:12So is your voice.

00:30:14Well, well.

00:30:16Miss Brode is Brode, I presume.

00:30:18Yes, yes, Mr. Lloyd.

00:30:24Would you like a rosebud?

00:30:26A what?

00:30:27It's the favourite sweet of little Princess Margaret Rose.

00:30:31Unmistakably Brode.

00:30:33And you, I suppose, are the pretty one.

00:30:45Good afternoon, girls.

00:30:52Mary, you're definitely upset about something.

00:30:55No.

00:30:56Tell. Tell or I'll pinch you.

00:30:58Tell.

00:30:59No, I won't tell.

00:31:01I love Miss Brode and I won't tell.

00:31:04What about Miss Brode?

00:31:06Tell or we'll take you into the locker room and hang you over the banisters.

00:31:10You wouldn't dare tell.

00:31:12It's none of your...

00:31:14Princess!

00:31:16Help! Help!

00:31:18Help! Help!

00:31:20No! No!

00:31:22You can't tell!

00:31:24Help! Help!

00:31:26Help! Help!

00:31:28Help!

00:31:32If you scream again, we'll drop your spoosh on your silly head.

00:31:35Mary, dear.

00:31:37If something's happened with Miss Brode, you should tell me.

00:31:40What have you done?

00:31:42She was so angry.

00:31:44Well, you know how you are, Mary.

00:31:46What have you done now?

00:31:48Nothing. I just went in.

00:31:51In where?

00:31:52The classroom.

00:31:53So?

00:31:55There they were.

00:31:57There who were?

00:31:59Oh, Mr. Lowther. Miss Brode and Mr. Lowther.

00:32:02No. Mr. Lloyd.

00:32:05They were kissing.

00:32:07Kissing?

00:32:13I saw them kissing.

00:32:17Together?

00:32:19He had his arms around her.

00:32:22Mr. Lloyd.

00:32:23Mr. Lloyd. Mr. Lloyd's in love with Miss Brode.

00:32:26And she's in love with Mr. Lloyd.

00:32:29You should have seen them.

00:32:32But what about Mr. Lowther, then?

00:32:35Mr. Lloyd is an artist.

00:32:37And Miss Brode is artistic, too.

00:32:40Miss Brode is really in love with Mr. Lloyd, but he's married to another.

00:32:44So she's working it off on Mr. Lowther.

00:32:48Oh!

00:32:49Let's go home.

00:32:54Listen, Eric.

00:32:56Was it a long, lingering kiss?

00:32:58I shouldn't have told you.

00:33:00But since you did, was it a long, lingering kiss?

00:33:04Yes.

00:33:06I see.

00:33:08Didn't they hear you?

00:33:09I don't think so.

00:33:11They jumped apart, though.

00:33:13You mean they sensed your presence?

00:33:16I don't know.

00:33:19Was it like this?

00:33:21Was it like this?

00:33:45That's fantastic!

00:33:52It's nearly five o'clock, time you girls were away.

00:33:54What were you doing, Sandy?

00:33:57Just play-acting, Miss Mackay.

00:33:59Play-acting at what?

00:34:02Opera.

00:34:04Opera?

00:34:06Yes, Miss Mackay.

00:34:07We've been studying Traviata.

00:34:10Sandy, show me what you were doing.

00:34:13Go on, show me.

00:34:32That's enough, Sandy.

00:34:35I'm sorry, Miss Mackay.

00:34:39That's enough, Sandy.

00:34:42She was doing Violetta, expiring for love of Alfredo.

00:34:46It's very sad.

00:34:47Oh, nonsense.

00:34:49Violetta did not expire for love of Alfredo.

00:34:52Violetta was a thoroughly silly woman with diseased lungs.

00:34:55If she'd been properly brought up,

00:34:57she'd have been out on the hockey field breathing deeply.

00:35:00Which is precisely what you little girls should be doing.

00:35:03Traviata is not on the Marcia Blaine curriculum.

00:35:06But Miss Brodie and Mr. Lowther took us to see Traviata

00:35:09when the Carl Rosa Company came to Edinburgh.

00:35:11Miss Brodie and Mr. Lowther took you to the opera?

00:35:14Mr. Lowther's jolly nice.

00:35:16We go to visit him at Crammond, too.

00:35:19When Miss Brodie goes?

00:35:22On weekends.

00:35:25How very nice of Mr. Lowther.

00:35:28And Miss Brodie.

00:35:30I hope you're appreciative.

00:35:32My, my. Miss Brodie's very musical, I believe.

00:35:35Theatres, concerts and the opera.

00:35:38Miss Brodie is very musical.

00:35:42I think Miss Brodie's more interested in art, Miss Mackay.

00:35:45Now, what makes you think Miss Brodie prefers art to music, Sandy?

00:35:49She told us so.

00:35:50Music is an interest to her, but painting is a passion.

00:35:56Miss Brodie said.

00:35:58A passion?

00:36:00Compared to music.

00:36:04Well, Mary.

00:36:07I'm sure you're too young to have passions.

00:36:09What are your cultural interests?

00:36:11Stories.

00:36:13Does Miss Brodie tell you stories?

00:36:16Oh, yes.

00:36:18L-l-love.

00:36:20Lovely stories.

00:36:23Stories like Traviata?

00:36:25Stories of history.

00:36:26History?

00:36:27She makes history seem like the cinema.

00:36:30No, not the cinema. More like Shakespeare.

00:36:33Shakespeare.

00:36:34Indeed.

00:36:36My.

00:36:37What would we do without Miss Brodie?

00:36:39I could wish your arithmetic papers were better.

00:36:42Culture is no compensation for lack of hard knowledge.

00:36:46I'm happy to see you are devoted to Miss Brodie.

00:36:49Your loyalty is also due to the school.

00:36:53I am always impressed by Miss Brodie's girls.

00:36:57In one way or another.

00:37:03Benito Mussolini is a great man.

00:37:07He began life as a journalist, a man of learning, an intellectual,

00:37:11but he is also a man of action.

00:37:13He has made Capri into a sanctuary for birds,

00:37:16a simple act of goodness.

00:37:20Now, if you all turn to page 25 of your geography books,

00:37:23you'll find a map of Capri. It's off the coast of Naples.

00:37:27It is because of your duty thousands of birds live and sing there today

00:37:31that might well have ended their careers on a piece of toast.

00:37:37Miss Gant, is there something you wanted?

00:37:44Thank you.

00:37:54Dear Miss Brodie, I hope it will be convenient for you

00:37:58to see me in my office this afternoon at 4.15, Emmeline Mackay.

00:38:044.15. Not 4, not 4.30, but 4.15.

00:38:09She thinks to intimidate me by the use of quarter hours.

00:38:16Now, as I was attempting to say, Benito Mussolini is indeed a man of action.

00:38:24Come in.

00:38:304.15. I was afraid I might be late or early.

00:38:35Not at all. You are most punctilious.

00:38:38Thank you for finding the time.

00:38:40I know how busy your girls keep you.

00:38:45Please sit down.

00:38:47Thank you.

00:38:50What a colourful frock.

00:38:53Colour enlivens the spirit, does it not?

00:38:56You're right, though I sometimes wonder if the spirits of the girls need enlivening.

00:39:00Oh, indeed they do. My credo is lift, enliven, stimulate.

00:39:05No doubt, but the Marcia Blaine School is essentially a conservative school.

00:39:09We do not encourage the progressive attitudes.

00:39:13Now, Miss Brodie, I have noticed a spirit of precocity among your girls,

00:39:18your special girls.

00:39:19Why, thank you.

00:39:21Oh, I am in my prime and my girls are benefiting from it.

00:39:26I'm proud to think that perhaps my girls are more aware.

00:39:31Precisely.

00:39:32To me, education is a leading out.

00:39:35The word education comes from the root X, meaning out, and duco, I lead.

00:39:41To me, education is simply a leading out of what is already there.

00:39:47I had hoped there might also be a certain amount of putting in.

00:39:52That would not be education, but intrusion.

00:39:56From the root prefix N, meaning in, and the stem trudo, I thrust,

00:40:00ergo to thrust a lot of information into a pupil's head.

00:40:04To discuss education with such a dedicated teacher is always instructive.

00:40:10However, it was not for that reason that I asked you to come here, Miss Brodie.

00:40:15I am told that you make weekly expeditions to Cramond.

00:40:20Yes, isn't it a lovely spot?

00:40:25It is indeed.

00:40:27I believe Mr. Lowther inherited the estate from his mother.

00:40:30He has lived there all his life.

00:40:32Mr. Lowther is not a worldly man, not a reckless man.

00:40:38It is doubtful whether he would recognize recklessness in others,

00:40:42and recklessness is an indulgence that we at Marcy are blamed.

00:40:46It must eschew, not only within our walls,

00:40:49but in the personal life, the conduct, as it were, of the teaching staff.

00:40:54Oh, Miss Mackay, I do not believe I have ever fully appreciated

00:41:00the taxing load of trivia with which a headmistress must concern herself.

00:41:06I must concern myself, Miss Brodie, with this school's board of governors.

00:41:11I flatter myself that I am not unknown to the board,

00:41:14having been a member of the staff of Marcia Blaine six years prior to your engagement, Miss Mackay.

00:41:21I feel quite safe in saying that no member of the board

00:41:24has ever shown anything but appreciation and approval of my teaching methods.

00:41:29Oh, Miss Mackay, I use the woods of Cramond for lessons in botany,

00:41:37the rocks of the shore to investigate the mysteries of geology.

00:41:43It should be patently clear that my expeditions to Cramond

00:41:47are expeditions for enrichment,

00:41:50enrichment for my girls and for Marcia Blaine.

00:42:02Neil! Thank you, Miss Brodie.

00:42:05I feel sure you and I have come to understand each other better.

00:42:08I am always a choked man, Miss Mackay.

00:42:10I am delighted to hear.

00:42:12Good day, Miss Brodie.

00:42:15Oh, chrysanthemums.

00:42:18Such serviceable flowers.

00:42:28May I have a word with you, Miss Gould?

00:42:36Miss Gould, you are, of course, aware of the problem.

00:42:40When a teacher has tenure and the loyalty of her pupils,

00:42:44it's not going to be easy, Miss Gould.

00:42:48However, no doubt, in due time, some advantage will be found safe to us.

00:42:52In the meanwhile, I would deem it as sincere service to the school

00:42:56if any indiscretion that might reach your ear should also reach mine.

00:43:03Also, your brother is a deacon of Cramond Kirk, is he not?

00:43:08And naturally eager to preserve its sanctity.

00:43:14Thank you, Miss Gould.

00:43:33What are you writing?

00:43:38My dear, delightful Gordon,

00:43:40your letter has moved me deeply, as you may imagine.

00:43:43But alas, I must ever decline to be Mrs. Lowther.

00:43:46My reasons are twofold.

00:43:48I am dedicated to my girls, as is Madame Pavlovna,

00:43:51and there is another in my life.

00:43:53He is Teddy Lloyd.

00:44:03Here, get me this.

00:44:08We can still have many a breezy day in the fishing boat at sea.

00:44:17What are you two girls up to?

00:44:20Now gather your things together and leave at once.

00:44:23This is a library, not a fanfare.

00:44:26Are those your books?

00:44:28Yes, they are.

00:44:30And what are you doing here?

00:44:32I've come to see you.

00:44:34I've come to see you.

00:44:36I've come to see you.

00:44:38I've come to see you.

00:44:40I've come to see you.

00:44:42I've come to see you.

00:44:44This is a library, not a fanfare.

00:44:46Are those your books?

00:44:48No, Miss McKenzie.

00:44:50I've come to see you.

00:45:12I want you to remember, girls,

00:45:14that it is of primary importance

00:45:16that the upper and lower tensions are perfectly even.

00:45:21And secondly, girls,

00:45:23it is most important to ensure

00:45:25that you are using the correct length of stitch.

00:45:28Now, if we were to fill this room

00:45:30with the hydrogen being made in these gas jars

00:45:33and then strike a match,

00:45:35there'd be an explosion large enough

00:45:38to reduce this building to dust and rubble.

00:45:41Luke, I'll show you.

00:45:44Hey, Johnny Cope, are you walkin' yet?

00:45:46Or are your drums a-beatin' yet?

00:45:48If ye were walkin', I would wait

00:45:52Tick-tock till the call's in the mornin'

00:45:55All together now.

00:45:57Hey, Johnny Cope, are you walkin' yet?

00:45:59Or are your drums a-beatin' yet?

00:46:01If ye were walkin', I would wait

00:46:03Tick-tock till the call's in the mornin'

00:46:05The sun!

00:46:07Forsooth, we are renewed.

00:46:09Refreshment alfresco.

00:46:11Enough to go round,

00:46:13but the lion's share for Mr. Lowther.

00:46:16This tavern may have sworn

00:46:18to fatten Mr. Lowther by a full half-stone.

00:46:21That is my pledge.

00:46:24Did I neglect to tell you, girls,

00:46:26that once, on leave from the war,

00:46:28Hugh took me out sailing in a fishing boat.

00:46:30We spent our happiest times

00:46:32among the rocks and pebbles of a small seaport.

00:46:35Sometimes Hugh would sing.

00:46:37He had a rich tenor voice.

00:46:41At other times, he would set up his easel and paint.

00:46:44Hugh was very talented in both arts,

00:46:47but I think...

00:46:49I think the painter was the real Hugh.

00:46:55But you girls are my life now.

00:46:58I am the potter, and you are my pride.

00:47:01You are shaping up.

00:47:03Soon you will graduate to the senior school,

00:47:05and I will no longer teach you,

00:47:07but you will always be Brodie girls.

00:47:10Ah, here comes our Mr. Lowther.

00:47:13Our minstrel sweet will sing unto me rounderly,

00:47:16or drop the brainy tear with me,

00:47:18da-da, da-da, da-da, da-da,

00:47:19and like a running river beam.

00:47:21Now, Mr. Lowther,

00:47:22you must cooperate with the fattening project.

00:47:24It will enrich your voice.

00:47:26Caruso had the appetite of a giant.

00:47:28Oh, good care you take of me.

00:47:32I was noticed at the theatre.

00:47:34I was noticed and reported to Mr. Gaunt.

00:47:37Mr. Gaunt?

00:47:39Oh, that deacon at Crammond.

00:47:41What ever for?

00:47:42Well, he considered head of Gabler.

00:47:44Well, he said that the choir master of his church

00:47:46had no business attending that sort of thing

00:47:48with an unmarried lady and children.

00:47:52Oh, I defended myself.

00:47:55Fiercely.

00:47:57Well, girls,

00:47:58as you hear,

00:47:59there's now been an attempt

00:48:00to persecute Mr. Lowther on our account.

00:48:02One must never succumb to provincial ignorance.

00:48:05Mr. Lowther did not.

00:48:07Nor shall anyone under my tutelage

00:48:09now eat up Mr. Lowther.

00:48:11What is it, Sandy?

00:48:13Miss Mackay is watching us from her window.

00:48:17Oh, indeed.

00:48:19I wonder how many more picnics we will be allowed

00:48:22before Miss Mackay thinks fit to patrol the grounds.

00:48:26It is Miss Mackay's hope to harass me

00:48:29into leaving Marcia Blaine.

00:48:31Miss Gaunt and certain teachers

00:48:33have taken to bidding me good morning

00:48:35with predestination in their smiles.

00:48:37Do you really think Miss Mackay wants to drive you away?

00:48:40It doesn't signify what Miss Mackay wants.

00:48:43Here I am and here I stay.

00:48:45I would not leave you girls for the Lord.

00:48:47Lion King of ours.

00:48:48Not even he.

00:48:49I shall remain in this education factory

00:48:52where my duty lies.

00:48:54If they want to get rid of me,

00:48:56they'll have to assassinate me.

00:48:58Now eat up, Mr. Lowther.

00:49:00Cooperation is the key note.

00:49:02Now Jenny, do us a cartwheel for comic relief.

00:49:13Bravo!

00:49:15Bravo!

00:49:17Bravo!

00:49:19Bravo!

00:49:22These are my girls, Mr. Lowther.

00:49:25For sooth they are broody girls.

00:49:28Monica.

00:49:30Monica is histrionic.

00:49:33She will perform in plays

00:49:35or perhaps write them.

00:49:38Mary.

00:49:40Our Mary is alone in this world.

00:49:42Her needs are great.

00:49:44But she has me.

00:49:46Mary will stop stuttering.

00:49:48She will brisk up.

00:49:49Rebecca will distinguish herself with me.

00:49:52I have no doubt.

00:49:56Then there is Jenny.

00:49:59Sometimes I feel there is a spiritual bond

00:50:02between Jenny and me.

00:50:04I don't expect Jenny feels this yet,

00:50:06but someday she will.

00:50:10And Sandy...

00:50:13Sandy is...

00:50:15Sandy is dependable.

00:50:17Oh, Sandy.

00:50:18Sandy is very dependable.

00:50:21Now, Monica, recite for us, please.

00:50:23What shall I recite, Miss Brody?

00:50:25Something.

00:50:27Something of magic.

00:50:32There she weaves by night and day

00:50:34a magic web with colours gay.

00:50:37She has heard a whisper say

00:50:39a curse is on her if she stay

00:50:41to look down on Camelot.

00:50:43She knows not what the curse may be.

00:50:49Mr Lowther, the Philistines are a promise.

00:50:52She knows not what the curse may be.

00:50:55And so she weaveth steadily.

00:50:58And little other care hath she,

00:51:01the Lady of Shalott.

00:51:03But in her web she still delights

00:51:06to weave the mirror's magic sights.

00:51:09For often through the silent nights

00:51:12a funeral with plumes and lights and music

00:51:15went to Camelot.

00:51:18Or when the moon was overhead

00:51:21came two young lovers lately wed.

00:51:26I am half sick of shadows,

00:51:31said the Lady of Shalott.

00:51:34The Lady of...

00:51:37Shalott.

00:51:39I think perhaps some day

00:51:42I think perhaps some day

00:51:44Jenny will catch the eye of an artist.

00:51:49Jenny will be painted many times.

00:51:54In years to come

00:51:57I think that Jenny will be famous for...

00:52:01sex.

00:52:04Well, Monica, what do you think of it?

00:52:06It makes her look very mature.

00:52:09I am very mature.

00:52:11We're all mature.

00:52:13Some people at the school think you're too mature.

00:52:16Everyone's jealous.

00:52:18They know the Broderie set has more fun than anyone else.

00:52:21We go places and we do things.

00:52:24Now you've taken to hanging round an artist's studio.

00:52:27Very glamorous.

00:52:29Miss Broderie's glamorous, don't you think?

00:52:32Mr. Lowther thinks she is.

00:52:35Sandy's awfully late. Do you think she's coming?

00:52:38Three years of Crammond and Mr. Lowther.

00:52:41What stamina.

00:52:43There's always lovely food at Crammond.

00:52:45Lasagna Verde.

00:52:47Sweetbreads a la Milanese.

00:52:50Har-Roose.

00:52:52Charlotte Bruce.

00:52:56Miss Broderie takes good care of Mr. Lowther.

00:52:59What does Mr. Lowther do for Miss Broderie?

00:53:02He sings to her.

00:53:04Sandy!

00:53:07Put that thing over there.

00:53:09Mary, for the third time this afternoon, will you get out of the way?

00:53:12Sorry.

00:53:15Mary McGregor.

00:53:19Well, Mary, what's new on the Rialto?

00:53:21What's new with your brother?

00:53:23How's he progressing up at Oxford?

00:53:25His tutor caught fire.

00:53:27Caught fire? His tutor?

00:53:29Caught from what?

00:53:31From my brother.

00:53:33Who set fire to the tutor?

00:53:36Your brother should be put in a house of correction.

00:53:43It makes me look very mature.

00:53:47It makes you look like Miss Broderie.

00:53:50All the sketches of Jenny do, too. They all look like Miss Broderie.

00:53:54I think they do.

00:53:56Yeah!

00:54:04I painted that chap in my student days.

00:54:06It was what's called life study.

00:54:08I had a difficult time with the pectoral muscles.

00:54:10Pectoral?

00:54:12Chest.

00:54:13Oh!

00:54:14Oh, Monica!

00:54:15What?

00:54:16Miss Broderie says that anyone of a cultured home and heritage

00:54:18makes no fuss about the human body.

00:54:20Who's making any fuss?

00:54:22You are! I have as much heritage as you do, any day.

00:54:27I think that's enough for today.

00:54:29If I keep on, I shall ruin the mouth.

00:54:31Well, that wouldn't be a pity.

00:54:35What do you think?

00:54:37Well, I think that it's...

00:54:39Miss Broderie says that Jenny will be painted many times.

00:54:43And what does she say about you?

00:54:45That I'm dependable.

00:54:47When shall I come back?

00:54:49Whenever you have time. Come next Saturday.

00:54:51All right. Come on, Sandy. I'm starving.

00:54:53No, I can't come with you. I've got to meet my mother.

00:54:55Oh, your eternal mother.

00:54:57Goodbye, girls.

00:54:58Goodbye, Mr Lloyd.

00:55:01Goodbye.

00:55:14My feet are wet.

00:55:15Take your shoes off then, silly.

00:55:17Dry them by the stove.

00:55:19I'll make some tea.

00:55:31Thank you.

00:55:47Aren't there any more biscuits?

00:55:48No, that's a lot.

00:55:49Not up to cramming standards, I fear.

00:55:51Lasagne verde.

00:55:53Harlot whoops.

00:55:55I wonder all that rich food doesn't give old Arthur a stoppage.

00:55:58He eats his greens.

00:56:02Do you paint portraits of your own children too?

00:56:19Is that your wife?

00:56:21That's my wife.

00:56:23Her name is Deirdre.

00:56:25Is she in her prime?

00:56:28Perhaps not quite yet.

00:56:30One day I'd like to paint all you brody girls.

00:56:32It'd be interesting to see what sort of group I could make of you.

00:56:35We'd all look like one great big brody, I suppose.

00:56:40You're a clever little cat, aren't you?

00:56:51That'll teach you to live with an artist like that.

00:57:00Don't you want the rest of your things?

00:57:05Can't have you running through the streets like a wee whore.

00:57:20Oh, there's Sandy!

00:57:25Sandy!

00:57:27Sandy! Sandy, dear!

00:57:30Sandy!

00:57:35Hello, Miss Brody, Mr Lowther.

00:57:37Whatever are you doing in this neighbourhood?

00:57:39As you see, Mr Lowther and I have been shopping for tomorrow's lunch.

00:57:42Thank goodness we can still have our Sunday lunch at Crammond.

00:57:45I can't tell you how much I miss having you girls in my class this year.

00:57:49We miss you too, Miss Brody.

00:57:51Tomorrow I must tell you girls of a new plot Miss Mackay has

00:57:54to force me to apply for a post at a progressive, that is to say, a cram school.

00:57:58But I shall stay at Marcia Bleen where my duty lies.

00:58:00If they want to get rid of me, they will have to...

00:58:02Assassinate you. Precisely.

00:58:04I thought you were to attend some social gathering this afternoon with Jenny.

00:58:08Where is Jenny?

00:58:09She went on home ahead of me. I stayed at the studio.

00:58:13The studio?

00:58:15She... Jenny just left, you see.

00:58:18Mr Lloyd's studio. Whatever were you doing there?

00:58:22It was supposed to be a surprise.

00:58:24Jenny is sitting for Mr Lloyd.

00:58:28Jenny is sitting for Mr Lloyd.

00:58:32And I wasn't in a way... When did this begin?

00:58:35At the start of term. I shouldn't have told you.

00:58:37Jean.

00:58:38Okay. I'm very glad you did tell me, Sandy.

00:58:43You are developing into a girl of great insight.

00:58:47Thank you, Miss Brody.

00:58:48You know, Sandy, I would be very interested to hear your own impressions of Jenny's portrait.

00:58:53But we won't discuss it with the others.

00:58:55Monday after school, you'll come to my flat for tea.

00:58:58We'll have a nice, quiet time together.

00:59:01Yes, Miss Brody.

00:59:03Well, here we are. I'm sure Mr Lloyd will take you home.

00:59:07In you get, Sandy.

00:59:08Thank you.

00:59:09You manage here.

00:59:10Yes, thank you.

00:59:11Thank you, Gordon.

00:59:13Very kind.

00:59:14Oh, you're more than welcome.

00:59:17It's a painting of Mr Lloyd's family.

00:59:19It starts with himself and his wife and then all the children graded downwards to the baby and the dog on the floor.

00:59:24It's supposed to be funny.

00:59:27But the funniest part is they all look like you.

00:59:33Like me?

00:59:34Yes.

00:59:35Even the baby. Everybody he paints looks like you.

00:59:41You shall butter the scones, Sandy dear.

00:59:44Be generous.

00:59:48Does the portrait of Jenny look like me?

00:59:52Oh, yes.

00:59:53Mr Lloyd might want to paint me too.

00:59:57I doubt if having your portrait painted is going to be your career, Sandy.

01:00:01Would you mind shutting the window, dear? There's a wee bit of a draft.

01:00:10What do you think it will be, Miss Brody?

01:00:14What do I think what will be?

01:00:16My career.

01:00:19Well, you're quite intelligent, of course.

01:00:22Actually, Sandy, you have something more than mere intelligence.

01:00:27You have insight.

01:00:34There goes Miss Lockhart.

01:00:38The chemistry teacher?

01:00:39Yes, she's got her golf clubs.

01:00:42Monica Summers allowed her playing golf with Miss Lockhart.

01:00:47Twice.

01:00:50Indeed.

01:00:52Well, I know very little of Miss Lockhart.

01:00:56I leave her to her jars and gases.

01:00:59We were talking about your insight, Sandy.

01:01:01You do have insight, and Jenny...

01:01:04Jenny has got instinct.

01:01:07Jenny will be a great lover.

01:01:11She's like a heroine from a novel by Mr D. H. Lawrence.

01:01:14The common moral code will not apply to her. She will be above it.

01:01:18This is a fact which only someone with your insight should know about.

01:01:23You know, Sandy, you would make an excellent secret service agent.

01:01:29A great spy.

01:01:35Sandy, you must try not to peer at people. It makes a most rude impression.

01:01:41Why do you think I would make a good spy, Miss Brody?

01:01:44Well, because you are intelligent and not emotional.

01:01:49I've observed this constraint in you. It has from time to time distressed me.

01:01:53As I myself am a deeply emotional woman, I feel many things passionately.

01:02:00I feel things, Miss Brody.

01:02:03Well, everybody does, of course.

01:02:05It's simply a matter of degree.

01:02:07Actually, a passion would be a great handicap to a spy.

01:02:13It would?

01:02:14Definitely.

01:02:17What did you mean when you said that Jenny was above the common moral code?

01:02:22Oh, simply that it will not apply to her. She is the exception.

01:02:27And we can help Jenny to realise this.

01:02:32Oh, Sandy dear, I forgot the hot water.

01:02:34I'll get it.

01:02:35Thank you, dear.

01:02:44Miss Brody, how do you think that we can help Jenny?

01:02:47We can encourage her, give her confidence.

01:02:51Confidence for what?

01:02:53When she is 18, or with a girl like Jenny, perhaps even 17, soon she will know love.

01:03:06Do you understand that, Sandy?

01:03:09You mean she'll have affairs?

01:03:12Love affairs.

01:03:15Oh, Sandy, you do have insight.

01:03:18I am never wrong.

01:03:20I can always depend on you.

01:03:33Little girls, you must all learn to cultivate an expression of composure.

01:03:39It is one of the greatest assets of a woman.

01:03:42An expression of composure, come foul, come fierce.

01:03:46Regard the Mona Lisa.

01:03:48She is older than the rocks on which she sits.

01:03:51Whom did I say to regard? Clara.

01:03:53The Mona Lisa, Miss Brody.

01:03:55That is correct. Clara has artistic tendencies.

01:04:00Little girls, I am in the business of putting old heads on young shoulders.

01:04:04And all my pupils are the cradle I crack.

01:04:07Oh, Jean. Oh, Jean.

01:04:09Mr. Lowther.

01:04:10Jean, Miss Brody, it's Miss Mackay. I've just left. I don't know what to do.

01:04:13Mr. Lowther, did you wish to speak to me about something?

01:04:18What can you be up to, Gordon? Such disbelief in front of the children.

01:04:21I tell you, it's Miss Mackay. She dismissed my class.

01:04:23She's found something terrible, something incriminating.

01:04:26She demands to see us both together immediately.

01:04:28Immediately.

01:04:29I am not accustomed to being summoned immediately, not by anyone.

01:04:33But, Jean, she sent me to meet you. She said now.

01:04:36Please, pull yourself together, Gordon.

01:04:39I promise I won't let Miss Mackay stand you in the corner.

01:04:43Just you wait there a minute.

01:04:51Well, your headmistress, Miss Mackay, wishes to see me for a few minutes.

01:04:57She has a wee problem she wishes to discuss with me.

01:05:00Now, what subject were we doing?

01:05:02History, Miss Brody.

01:05:03Oh, yes. Well, open your history books.

01:05:05While I'm away from the room, we'll all read the chapter on the succession of the Stuarts.

01:05:12You'll sit quietly in your seats and remain composed.

01:05:16Make the moment easier.

01:05:26Miss Brody, do you know what this is?

01:05:29It would appear to be a piece of blue paper with writing on it in pencil.

01:05:33It is, in fact, a letter.

01:05:35It was found by Miss Mackenzie in a library book.

01:05:37She ganced at it, but after the first sentence, she dared not actually read it.

01:05:41She brought it instantly to me.

01:05:43Yes. Is it addressed to you?

01:05:45No, Miss Brody.

01:05:47It is addressed to Mr. Lowther.

01:05:49But it is signed by you.

01:05:53I shall begin.

01:05:54Oh, please do.

01:05:56Of course, I realize it is a forgery. It is the work of a child.

01:06:00My dear, delightful Gordon,

01:06:03your letter has moved me deeply, as you may imagine.

01:06:06But, alas, I must ever decline to be Mrs. Lowther.

01:06:10My reasons are twofold.

01:06:12I am dedicated to my girls, as is Madam Pavlova,

01:06:16and there is another in my life.

01:06:18He is Teddy Lloyd.

01:06:20Intimacy has never taken place with him.

01:06:23He is married to another.

01:06:25We are not lovers, but we know the truth.

01:06:28However, I was proud of giving myself to you

01:06:32when you came and took me in the bracken

01:06:34while the storm raged about us.

01:06:37If I am in a certain condition,

01:06:40I shall please the infant in the care of a worthy shepherd and his wife.

01:06:44I may permit misconduct to occur again from time to time as an outlet,

01:06:49because I am in my prime.

01:06:53We can also have many a breezy day in the fishing boat at sea.

01:06:58We must keep a sharp lookout for Miss Mackay, however,

01:07:02as she is rather narrow,

01:07:04which arises from an ignorance of culture and the Italian scene.

01:07:08I love to hear you singing,

01:07:10Hey, Johnny Cope,

01:07:12but were I to receive a proposal of marriage tomorrow

01:07:15from the Lord Lion, King of Arms, I would decline it.

01:07:18Allow me, in conclusion,

01:07:20to congratulate you warmly on your sexual intercourse

01:07:24as well as your singing

01:07:26with fondest joy, Jean Brodie.

01:07:30Is this what your girls, your set,

01:07:33has learned under your auspices, Miss Brodie?

01:07:40It's a literary collaboration.

01:07:42Two separate hands are involved.

01:07:44One of the authors slants her tail consonants in an unorthodox manner

01:07:48and the other does not.

01:07:50Also, the paper seems somewhat aged.

01:07:53Is that all you have to say?

01:07:55What else is there to say?

01:07:57Two little girls at the age of budding sexual fantasy

01:08:00have concocted a romance for themselves.

01:08:02They've chosen me as a romantic symbol.

01:08:05Is that so surprising?

01:08:07Do you deny that you encourage these fantasies, as you call them?

01:08:11Do you deny that by consorting openly with Mr Lowther of Crammond

01:08:14you lead these poor children into the most fevered conclusions?

01:08:18Not only Mr Lowther, but Mr Lloyd is brought into the circle of fire.

01:08:22Mr Lloyd, who has a wife and six children.

01:08:26It is diabolic that infants should be knowledgeable.

01:08:30Twelve-year-old girls are not infants, Miss Mackay.

01:08:33How do you know they're 12 years old?

01:08:35From the handwriting, the vocabulary,

01:08:37the rudimentary knowledge of the facts of life.

01:08:41Surely you cannot believe that that is the work of nine-year-olds.

01:08:45I could believe it was the work of your nine-year-olds, Miss Brodie.

01:08:49There's very little for me to say, Miss Mackay,

01:08:51in the face of your extraordinary prejudice and hostility.

01:08:53Miss Brodie, I am not asking you to say anything.

01:08:56I am asking, demanding, that you put your signature,

01:08:59your own signature,

01:09:01on a letter of resignation which I have prepared for you.

01:09:04BELL RINGS

01:09:20I will not resign.

01:09:22You will not resign. You will force me to dismiss you.

01:09:26I will not resign, and you will not dismiss me, Miss Mackay.

01:09:31You will not use the excuse of that pathetic,

01:09:34that humorous document to blackmail me.

01:09:39Mr Lowther, you are a witness to this.

01:09:43Miss Mackay has made totally unsupported accusations

01:09:46against my name and yours.

01:09:48If she has one authentic shred of evidence,

01:09:51just one, let her bring it forth.

01:09:53Otherwise, if one more word of this outrageous calumny reaches my ears,

01:09:57I shall sue.

01:09:59I shall take Miss Mackay to the public courts,

01:10:01and I shall sue the trustees of Marcia Blaine, if they support her.

01:10:05I will not stand quietly by and allow myself to be crucified

01:10:08by a woman whose fetid frustration has overcome her judgment.

01:10:11If scandal is to your taste, Miss Mackay, I shall give you a feast.

01:10:15Miss Brodie!

01:10:17I am a teacher. I am a teacher first, last, always.

01:10:21Do you imagine that for one instant

01:10:23I will let that be taken from me without a fight?

01:10:26I have dedicated, sacrificed my life to this profession,

01:10:29and I will not stand by like an inky little slacker

01:10:32and watch you rob me of it.

01:10:34And for what? For what reason? For jealousy?

01:10:36Because I have the gift of claiming girls for my own.

01:10:39It is true, I am a strong influence on my girls.

01:10:42I am proud of it.

01:10:44I influence them to be aware of all the possibilities of life,

01:10:47of beauty, honor, courage.

01:10:50I do not, Miss Mackay, influence them to look for slime where it does not exist.

01:10:55I am going.

01:10:57When my class convenes, my pupils will find me composed

01:11:00and prepared to reveal to them the succession of the Stuarts.

01:11:05And on Sunday I will go to Cramond to visit Mr. Lowther.

01:11:09We are accustomed, Bachelor and Spinster,

01:11:11to spend our Sundays together in sailing and walking the beaches

01:11:14and in the pursuit of music.

01:11:16Mr. Lowther is teaching me to play the mandolin.

01:11:19Good day, Miss Mackay.

01:11:26Mr. Lowther, I am sure I need not suggest to you

01:11:30that we keep the details of Miss Broody's little tantrum to ourselves.

01:11:35I have no doubt that you, as well as I, have her interests at heart.

01:11:39Well, I... Thank you, Mr. Lowther.

01:11:41Now, I have no doubt you have other duties to attend to.

01:11:44Oh, yes, yes, Miss Mackay. Thank you. Thank you very much, Miss Mackay.

01:11:47Jean.

01:11:49Jean, you were heroic! Heroic!

01:11:51To see you like that, it was really inspiring.

01:11:54If only I could have stood in your way.

01:11:57But I can no longer stand in your way, Colin.

01:12:00I've lost to you.

01:12:02You are my hero.

01:12:04I don't want to see you again.

01:12:06I don't want to see you again.

01:12:08I don't want to see you again.

01:12:10I don't want to see you again.

01:12:12I don't want to see you again.

01:12:14I don't want to see you again.

01:12:16Oh, if only I could have stood up like that to Mr. Gaunt.

01:12:18If I could have said to him,

01:12:19now, look here, Mr. Gaunt,

01:12:20if you have one authentic shred of evidence, just one.

01:12:22What are you talking about?

01:12:24Mr. Gaunt, he called to see me the night before last.

01:12:26He advised me to resign as organist and elder of the church.

01:12:29He spoke very plainly.

01:12:30And what did you answer?

01:12:34I resign.

01:12:36And you allowed this evil-minded man,

01:12:38a man who uses his position as deacon of the kirk,

01:12:42to receive the slanderous gossip of petty provincials.

01:12:45Oh, but, Jean, it isn't just gossip.

01:12:47You do not go home on Sunday nights.

01:12:49They had no proof.

01:12:51None whatever.

01:12:52You should have refused point-blank to resign.

01:12:54Can't you see that resignation is tantamount to a confession of guilt?

01:12:58But I feel guilty.

01:12:59Well, I do not.

01:13:01Oh, Jean, will you not marry me

01:13:03and put an end to all this sneaking about?

01:13:05Why won't you marry me?

01:13:06Only yesterday it was told to my face

01:13:09that you are planning to marry the chemistry teacher.

01:13:13Oh, I played golf with Miss Lockhart once.

01:13:16Twice.

01:13:17Twice?

01:13:18Beware, don't trifle with her.

01:13:21She has the means to blow us all up.

01:13:23Now, don't tease me, Jean.

01:13:25Miss Lockhart means nothing to me.

01:13:27Oh, you know that all I care about is you.

01:13:29All I want is to see you happy and safe.

01:13:31I don't understand you, Jean.

01:13:33You will not marry me, and yet you feed me and share my bed.

01:13:36Share your bed?

01:13:37Why can't you say you are my lover?

01:13:39I do not want to be your lover!

01:13:41I want to be your husband.

01:13:43I want to go on my honeymoon to the Isle of Egg near Rom

01:13:45where my mother and father went on their honeymoon.

01:13:47And I want to come back to Cremond with my bride.

01:13:49That's what I want.

01:13:51And I want to conduct a church choir, too.

01:14:11I want to conduct a church choir.

01:14:42Rumors are flying. Are you out?

01:14:44On the contrary.

01:14:46Miss Mackay experienced the utmost difficulty

01:14:48in persuading me to stay.

01:14:50Oh, how I wish I might have heard her plea.

01:14:53The utmost difficulty? You've been painting Jenny.

01:14:55Yes, that's right.

01:14:57I am glad, very glad.

01:14:59She's getting more beautiful each year.

01:15:01She quite amazes me.

01:15:03You see it, too. You're an artist.

01:15:05You see things other men don't see.

01:15:07You must see it.

01:15:09Jenny's quite a pretty girl.

01:15:11Pretty? No, no, it's much more than that.

01:15:14She has extraordinary physical instincts.

01:15:17Primitive and free.

01:15:20Primitive? Little Jenny?

01:15:23What are you up to, Jean?

01:15:26I'm only trying to tell you that I've always felt

01:15:28that Jenny could be

01:15:30magnificently elevated

01:15:32above the ordinary run of lovers.

01:15:35The ordinary run of lovers?

01:15:38What are you talking about?

01:15:41It's just that I've always known

01:15:43that one day

01:15:45you would paint Jenny.

01:15:48Paint Jenny?

01:15:52Jean, I think you're quite aware of what you're doing.

01:15:55You're trying to put that child in my bed,

01:15:58in your place.

01:16:01Don't be disgusting!

01:16:03It's only the words that disgust you.

01:16:05You don't boggle at the thought, do you?

01:16:07You'll accept anything, anything but reality

01:16:09trying to use Jenny and poor old Lowther

01:16:11making him play house.

01:16:14I do not use Mr. Lowther.

01:16:16It is I who allow myself to be used.

01:16:18I give him every attention he can cook for me.

01:16:21You feed him instead of loving him, isn't that it?

01:16:23You know nothing about what there is of love

01:16:25between Gordon and me.

01:16:27Oh, my God, all those boring hours in bed

01:16:29with old Lowther pupping bravely away?

01:16:34Good, that's more like it. That was direct.

01:16:38That's the first actual contact between us in three years.

01:16:41Get out! Get out! Get out of my class!

01:16:44My girls!

01:16:58Little girls, this is Mr. Lloyd, the art master.

01:17:01When you are 14, if he is still at Marcia Blaine,

01:17:04I will then hand you over to him

01:17:06and you will be fortunate enough to receive his artistic guidance.

01:17:11Goodbye, girls.

01:17:13Goodbye, Mr. Lloyd.

01:17:15See you in three years.

01:17:17Goodbye, Miss Brodie.

01:17:19I also hope I shall see you.

01:17:23For the rest of the afternoon,

01:17:25I have decided that we will not do more history.

01:17:28Rather, I will show you some more slides

01:17:31of my last holidays in Italy.

01:17:33Monitors, the blinds, please.

01:17:36Cleo, will you pull down the screen?

01:17:39I also spent two weeks in Egypt,

01:17:42where people do not believe in God but in Allah.

01:17:45I also spent two weeks in Egypt,

01:17:48where people do not believe in God but in Allah.

01:17:51Catherine, will you switch on the light, please?

01:17:54The bottom left-hand side.

01:17:57I have brought you these slides at my own expense.

01:18:01The girls at the back may sit up on their desks.

01:18:09Rome.

01:18:11This is a large formation of Il Duce's fascisti.

01:18:14They are following him in noble destiny.

01:18:19I myself mingled with such a crowd.

01:18:23I wore my silk dress with red poppies,

01:18:26which is right for my colouring.

01:18:28Benito Mussolini.

01:18:30Il Duce.

01:18:32Italy's leader supreme.

01:18:35A Roman worthy of his heritage,

01:18:38the greatest Roman of them all.

01:18:43The Colosseum,

01:18:45where Christian slaves were thrown to the lions

01:18:48and gladiators fought to the death.

01:18:56Hail Caesar! Those who are about to die salute thee.

01:19:02Florence.

01:19:05The David of Michelangelo.

01:19:08That is the original David.

01:19:11He is in the Galleria dell'Accademia di Belle Arte.

01:19:16There is a copy in the Piazza della Signoria,

01:19:20next to the Palazzo Vecchio.

01:19:23He is there for any passerby to gaze upon and be uplifted.

01:19:29He is at once the glory of the past and the inspiration of the future.

01:19:35David, the young warrior.

01:19:42This is a picture of the Ponte Vecchio.

01:19:45The old bridge, Ponte Vecchio.

01:19:49It is a famous painting of Dante meeting Beatrice.

01:19:55It is pronounced Beatrice in Italian,

01:19:59which makes it very beautiful.

01:20:03Meeting Beatrice on the Ponte Vecchio.

01:20:07Ponte Vecchio.

01:20:10He fell in love with her at that moment.

01:20:14He was a man in his middle years. She was fourteen.

01:20:17That can happen.

01:20:19A mature man can find love in a young girl, a very young girl.

01:20:24By the spring.

01:20:26The essence of all old loves.

01:20:31It is not unlikely that we shall never know

01:20:34Beatrice reminded Dante sharply in that moment when he first saw her

01:20:41on the Ponte Vecchio.

01:20:44Of an old love.

01:20:47A lost love, a sublime love.

01:20:51And he was seized with such a longing.

01:20:57Such a longing.

01:21:05That picture was painted by Rossetti.

01:21:09Who was Dante Gabriele Rossetti, Jenny?

01:21:12Who was Dante Gabriele Rossetti?

01:21:19Clara.

01:21:21A painter, Miss Brodie.

01:21:24What? What was that you said?

01:21:27A painter.

01:21:29What was that you said?

01:21:31A painter.

01:21:35Yes.

01:21:37Yes, a painter.

01:21:41Oh, yes.

01:21:46A painter.

01:21:50Where you are mistaken is in supposing Jean Brodie is unique.

01:21:55There's an army of these ladies in Edinburgh.

01:21:59They do not attempt to teach in schools of the traditional character of Marcia Blaine.

01:22:05Jean is a magnificent specimen.

01:22:08She's utterly ridiculous.

01:22:10There's no contradiction in being both ridiculous and magnificent.

01:22:14Your young mind will have to stretch a bit to grasp that.

01:22:18I think my young mind is stretched astonishingly to be able to discuss at 17

01:22:23at 17 the enduring passion of my lover for another woman.

01:22:28It is not only astonishing, Sandy, it is unnatural.

01:22:32You should be passionate and involved

01:22:36and short-sighted.

01:22:38I'm tired.

01:22:40Take a rest, then.

01:22:42I'll make some tea.

01:22:44Her and her passions are fascisti.

01:22:47You should see her skulking around with her formers trying to raise funds for Franco.

01:22:52Franco? Oh, my God.

01:22:54Oh, he has become very Spanish this term.

01:22:56What with Mary McGregor's brother and all.

01:22:59What's Mary McGregor's miserable brother got to do with Franco?

01:23:02Haven't you heard?

01:23:04He's run off to Spain to fight.

01:23:06Miss Brodie's beside herself with joy.

01:23:09Jean knows nothing of politics or politicians.

01:23:12She simply invests all leaders with her own romantic vision.

01:23:16Why isn't there ever anything to eat in this place?

01:23:20You know, it occurred to me that the Brodie set

01:23:23has been Miss Brodie's faithful fascisti, marching along.

01:23:27And I suddenly thought of her disapproval of the girl guides.

01:23:30Why, it's simple jealousy.

01:23:32The guides are a rival fascisti, and she cannot bear it.

01:23:36How I wish I'd joined the Brownies.

01:23:42What a spiteful child it is.

01:23:45You're too irritable for a girl of your age.

01:23:49My age does bother you, doesn't it?

01:23:54How much longer are you going to be tempted by this firm young flesh?

01:23:58Until you're 18 and over the hill.

01:24:02Hey, Teddy, take me dancing.

01:24:04Certainly not.

01:24:05What a coward.

01:24:07A man with a wife and six children, plus a schoolgirl for a mistress,

01:24:10can be called any number of rude names, but coward is not one of them.

01:24:15So sweet, the flesh of the neck.

01:24:18If only it could be bottled and sold across the country.

01:24:24I really shouldn't feed your depraved appetite.

01:24:28Hey, Teddy, Teddy, listen.

01:24:30When can I look at my painting?

01:24:32I'm very bored with not being allowed to see my own portrait.

01:24:35Well, I've finished it, and I shall never finish it.

01:24:38We shall simply have to see it again.

01:24:41And I shall never finish it.

01:24:43We shall simply go on like this until one or both of us is dead.

01:24:47No!

01:24:49I want to see myself mirrored in your eyes.

01:24:52I need a vision of myself.

01:24:53No, Sandy, no.

01:24:55I haven't finished it yet.

01:24:57I'm not pleased with it yet.

01:24:58Oh, you will never be pleased.

01:25:02Sandy!

01:25:11Sandy!

01:25:21I cannot help myself, Sandy.

01:25:24Believe me, it has nothing to do with what I feel for you.

01:25:32Even the skin tones are hers.

01:25:34It's not even my skin.

01:25:38And I thought...

01:25:40I really thought that you...

01:25:43Well, you know, desired me.

01:25:46Desired me.

01:25:48I... I do.

01:25:51It might just as well have been Jenny, after all.

01:25:54It would have been the same with anyone.

01:25:59Sandy, listen to me.

01:26:02Love is the most irrational thing on God's earth.

01:26:06Do you think I'd choose to love Jean Brodie?

01:26:10If I could choose, I would love my wife or you.

01:26:14You are the most remarkable girl I've ever known.

01:26:18You are marvellous and astonishing and desirable.

01:26:23Why would I not choose to love you if I could choose?

01:26:28Please don't think less of yourself because I am...

01:26:32bewitched.

01:26:34Very well, I shan't.

01:26:37Believe what I'm telling you.

01:26:39Oh, I believe you, Teddy.

01:26:41I even believe that you are bewitched.

01:26:43I'm not sure about God, but I am now quite sure about witches.

01:26:49Will you be back tomorrow?

01:26:52No, I won't be back.

01:26:55That really would be a waste of time, wouldn't it?

01:26:59Good night, Teddy.

01:27:02You can go on painting.

01:27:04You don't really need a model.

01:27:09As this seems to be a time for truth,

01:27:12you're quite a mediocre painter, Teddy.

01:27:15You'll never be really good.

01:27:17I wonder you don't try some other line.

01:27:19You are getting on, you know.

01:27:24Generalissimo Franco is called El Jefe.

01:27:29The chief.

01:27:30J-E-F-E. The J is silent. El Jefe.

01:27:33He is a dedicated man.

01:27:36You must all grow up to be dedicated women.

01:27:39As Generalissimo Franco has dedicated himself to a cause

01:27:42as I have dedicated myself to you.

01:27:45Dedication is the order of the day.

01:27:47Oh, Mary McGregor! Girls, come and join us.

01:27:50Mary, dear, is there any news from your brother from Spain?

01:27:54No, Miss Brodie, nothing.

01:27:56Mr Ealing at the bank is sending for him.

01:27:59Sending detectives to Spain.

01:28:03Your brother is being sent for?

01:28:06Mr Ealing at the bank would send for Caesar.

01:28:10The Mr Ealings at the bank have tried throughout history

01:28:13to stay the march of civilisation.

01:28:15Why can't they understand?

01:28:17It should be obvious to the meanest intelligence.

01:28:19Franco's army comprises all the best elements of Spain

01:28:23and her supporters.

01:28:25They are committed to heroic action.

01:28:27You little girls are living in a time that will demand

01:28:30all that you have to give of courage and gallantry.

01:28:33You must become heroines. Heroines!

01:28:36Do you mean we will have to march and shoot guns?

01:28:39If you are called.

01:28:41Girls?

01:28:43Have you never heard of Hannah Snell?

01:28:46She was an English girl born in 1723

01:28:49and sailed in Admiral Boscoen's fleet

01:28:51and fought at Arapong.

01:28:53But without medical aid she extracted the bullet

01:28:56from her own shoulder and lived to serve again.

01:29:00Hannah Snell was a girl.

01:29:04Now you two must be prepared to serve,

01:29:07suffer and sacrifice.

01:29:09Are you prepared?

01:29:11Yes, Miss Brodie.

01:29:13Yes, Miss Brodie.

01:29:15No, Miss Brodie.

01:29:17But she could get shot.

01:29:19Without medical aid she would extract the bullet

01:29:22from her own shoulder and live to serve again.

01:29:25It isn't funny. She could really get hurt.

01:29:27What's going on? Who would get hurt?

01:29:29Mary McGregor. She's run away to Spain to fight.

01:29:32What kind of joke is this?

01:29:34It isn't a joke. She's really gone to Spain.

01:29:36Mary McGregor couldn't negotiate her way across Edinburgh.

01:29:39But she has a guiding spirit.

01:29:41What are you talking about?

01:29:43I'm sure Miss Brodie gave Mary very explicit directions.

01:29:46The Paris train will take you as far as Perpignan.

01:29:49No. P-E-R-P-I-G-N-A-N.

01:29:53Now, the pounds are in this envelope marked pounds,

01:29:56and the francs are in this envelope marked francs,

01:29:59and the pesetas are in this envelope marked pesetas.

01:30:03How else?

01:30:05I don't believe it.

01:30:07Nor do I. Miss Brodie will be frantic.

01:30:10Miss Brodie will be ecstatic.

01:30:20Moving your troops to Barcelona?

01:30:23Mary McGregor has gone to join her brother.

01:30:26He is her only kin.

01:30:29Yes, I heard you've been raising funds for Franco.

01:30:32I find that extraordinary.

01:30:34The times are extraordinary.

01:30:49Beep, beep.

01:31:19Beep, beep.

01:31:31Miss Brodie!

01:31:34Miss Brodie!

01:31:38Miss Brodie!

01:31:49Miss Brodie!

01:32:20Oh, Mary McGregor.

01:32:24Girls, I have called you together,

01:32:28my special girls,

01:32:30to tell you the truth about Mary McGregor.

01:32:34Miss Mackay has told you the facts about Mary's death,

01:32:38has told you the truth about her death,

01:32:42has told you the truth about her death,

01:32:46told you the facts about Mary's death,

01:32:49how the train was bombed and machine-gunned

01:32:51as it crossed the frontier,

01:32:53but only I can tell you the truth.

01:32:56Mary McGregor died a heroine.

01:33:00It was her intention to fight for Franco

01:33:03against the forces of darkness.

01:33:06So, although she was killed

01:33:08before she herself could strike a blow,

01:33:11her intention was a noble and heroic one.

01:33:15Had she lived,

01:33:17Mary would have become a woman of great spirit and initiative.

01:33:23Hers would have been a dedicated life.

01:33:28You must all grow up to be dedicated women,

01:33:32as Mary McGregor dedicated her youth to a cause,

01:33:37as I have dedicated myself to you.

01:33:42Tonight, little girls, let your imaginations soar.

01:33:48Think of Joan of Arc, Florence Nightingale.

01:33:54Think of Mary McGregor,

01:33:58who among you has the makings of a heroine.

01:34:02Yes, Clara?

01:34:04May we think of you, Miss Brodie?

01:34:09Well, why not?

01:34:11Deep in most of us is a potential for greatness,

01:34:15or the potential to inspire greatness.

01:34:22The day draws late.

01:34:24Your families will be expecting you.

01:34:27Take home the story of Mary McGregor.

01:34:39Sandy?

01:34:43I thought you and I might have tea together.

01:34:45I wanted to talk to you about Mary.

01:34:48I'm sorry, but I have some work to do.

01:34:51How busy and grown up you've become.

01:34:54Well, I won't try to stop you,

01:34:56but you must remember, Sandy dear, how much I do depend on you.

01:35:00I'll remember.

01:35:02I'm sorry, but I have some work to do.

01:35:05How busy and grown up you've become.

01:35:08Well, I won't try to stop you,

01:35:11but you must remember, Sandy dear, how much I do depend on you.

01:35:15I'll remember.

01:35:33Somebody's crying.

01:35:35Do you wonder who?

01:35:38Tears that would fill up

01:35:41an ocean or two.

01:35:44Tears too young

01:35:47to even feel true.

01:35:50Somebody's crying.

01:35:53Do you wonder who?

01:35:56Tears that would fill up

01:36:00Somebody's crying for you.

01:36:06Somebody's crying,

01:36:09saying no matter.

01:36:12He's just a someone

01:36:15that you left behind.

01:36:18What a way to leave

01:36:21that you'll never see.

01:36:24What a way to leave

01:36:27that you'll never see.

01:36:30Yesterday's a lover

01:36:33like yesterday's me.

01:36:36Lost like a flower

01:36:39that floats down the stream.

01:36:42Don't know where to go.

01:36:45Only a sorrow.

01:36:48Somebody's crying

01:36:51for you.

01:36:54Would you like to dance, Sandy?

01:36:56No, thank you.

01:36:58I thought it was considered a triumph of the first magnitude

01:37:01to be asked to dance by a male staff member.

01:37:03Excuse me.

01:37:05Mr. Lloyd said I could have my portrait.

01:37:07Monica.

01:37:08Oh, thank you, Sandy.

01:37:10All right, very much.

01:37:13Somebody's crying.

01:37:16Do you wonder who?

01:37:19Tears that would fill up

01:37:22Somebody's crying for you.

01:37:25You know no one here

01:37:28who's crying for you.

01:37:31Somebody's crying for you.

01:37:34You know no one here

01:37:37who's crying for you.

01:37:41Somebody's crying for you.

01:37:51Would you like some punch, Miss Broadhead?

01:37:53Oh, Mr. Lloyd, thank you.

01:37:55Is the meeting ready, Miss?

01:37:56Well...

01:37:57It's very thoughtful of you.

01:38:00Well, Jean, how's the Franco fun coming along?

01:38:03Not well.

01:38:04Popular sentiment being what it is

01:38:07the calls in the Marcia Blaine assembly hall. yes I dare say. I too am attempting

01:38:12to raise funds for a worthy cause. you? what sort of cause? a romantic one. I'm

01:38:18taking up a collection to buy a wedding present for Lariver and miss Lockhart.

01:38:23may I put you down for a pound? it's to be a simple affair at Crammond Kirk a week

01:38:28on Saturday. I'm told when they announced their intention to miss Mackay last

01:38:33evening her delight was so profound that she ran amok and toasted them in neat

01:38:36whisky.

01:38:49ah miss Brodie. good evening mr. Barrage. the night is young mr. Barrage. excuse me for a moment.

01:39:00Teddy. Teddy who told you to come to me like that? I volunteered. I said the

01:39:05sparrow with my verno. I volunteered. and what kill play did you expect to make?

01:39:12do you think I could not with one snap of my fingers send poor miss Lockhart back to her gaseous demean?

01:39:19it was I who encouraged mr. Lothar in his reluctant pursuit of miss Lockhart.

01:39:25what I cannot understand is you. I cannot understand you. now this coming to me in

01:39:30that way hoping to hurt and humiliate me. why? I don't know. it's what I wanted to

01:39:34hurt you. why? why are you so angry with me? because I'm afraid. because I don't

01:39:40feel safe with you around. you should have married old Lowther. you really should.

01:39:44I'm 43 years old Gina. how old are you? I'm my prime. your prime? look at yourself

01:39:51Jean. look at me. a second-rate painter running to seed you. in your prime Jean

01:39:58you're a frustrated spinster taking it out in idiot causes and dangerous ideas.

01:40:03a schoolmarm. I am a teacher. a teacher or a leader? the dangerous miss Brody and

01:40:13the herd troops. well where you lead I cannot follow.

01:40:20arrivederci.

01:40:26mr. Barrett. should we dance?

01:40:28yes delighted.

01:40:34I thought perhaps you wouldn't want to say it.

01:40:36it's something that I could promise you.

01:40:38it's nothing in the name of me to connect with you in this particular way.

01:40:40miss Mackay

01:40:42since you were first appointed headmistress of Marcia Blaine you have done nothing but try to dismiss me from the teaching staff.

01:40:50you have tried every feeble excuse even that of immorality and failed.

01:40:56now you are accusing me of preaching politics to my pupils.

01:41:01such a continuous personal vendetta is hardly conducive to the dignity of your position.

01:41:09miss Brody I don't think you quite understand. let me make the situation perfectly clear.

01:41:16it is not I but the Board of Governors who have pursued this investigation to its conclusion.

01:41:22and it is the Board of Governors who after having given due consideration to the grave charges laid against you

01:41:29have given instructions that you leave this school immediately

01:41:33and that your classes be taken over tomorrow morning by another teacher.

01:41:42the Board has asked me to convey to you the fact that your salary will be paid in full until the end of the term

01:41:47which in the circumstances is more than generous.

01:41:50miss Brody

01:41:52there is nothing more to be said.

01:41:56I shall not accept the Board's action.

01:42:01I shall petition. I shall put the question before the public, before the parents and the student body.

01:42:07you will find miss Mackay that I have the loyalty of my girls.

01:42:13do you miss Brody?

01:42:16they are coming to farewell.

01:42:19they are coming to farewell.

01:42:21they are coming to farewell.

01:42:23which nobody can deny.

01:42:31why miss Brody aren't you coming to the common room?

01:42:34the common room?

01:42:36the celebration honoring miss Lockhart and mr. Lowther.

01:42:41aren't you coming miss Brody?

01:42:45I'll be there shortly.

01:43:10singing

01:43:22door slams

01:43:37Sandy

01:43:40Sandy

01:43:43Sandy

01:43:46I believe Sandy.

01:43:49I believe I am past my prime.

01:43:54I had reckoned on my prime lasting till I was at least

01:43:5950.

01:44:01are you listening Sandy?

01:44:03I'm listening miss Brody.

01:44:06I have been dismissed from Marcia Blaine.

01:44:11I am accused of teaching treason and sedition to my students.

01:44:17I am being transported for radicalism like Thomas Muir of Hunter's Hill.

01:44:24but if miss Mackay and her conspirators expect that I shall meekly lay my head on their chopping block

01:44:29they are in for a wee surprise.

01:44:31what will you do?

01:44:32as I informed miss Mackay I will resort to public petition.

01:44:36I have no doubt that many supporters will rally to my defense.

01:44:39my students are loyal.

01:44:42my girls.

01:44:46someone betrayed me Sandy. someone spoke against me to the board.

01:44:51who could it have been? who?

01:44:53are you thinking that maybe one of your girls betrayed you?

01:44:58I said to miss Mackay

01:45:00I have the loyalty of my girls and she said

01:45:04do you?

01:45:07I'll not believe it. I'll not believe it was one of my girls.

01:45:10perhaps it's true.

01:45:16I thought possibly Monica of this very little soul.

01:45:19Monica is a liar.

01:45:20I know.

01:45:21you all are. Monica and Jenny. oh not Jenny.

01:45:25she's like a part of myself.

01:45:29you Sandy as you see you are exempt from all suspicion.

01:45:32you have had more of my confidence than anyone.

01:45:35I know more than anyone would have sacrificed for my girls.

01:45:38Teddy Lloyd was greatly in love with me Sandy as I think you have always known.

01:45:45and I gave him up to consecrate my life to the young girls in my care.

01:45:50you and Monica and Jenny.

01:45:54Jenny.

01:45:56she and mr. Lloyd will soon be lovers.

01:45:59I have that.

01:46:01do you think that your providence that you can ordain love?

01:46:07what?

01:46:08you haven't pulled it off.

01:46:10Jenny will not be Teddy Lloyd's lover.

01:46:13what are you saying Sandy?

01:46:16Jenny will not be Teddy Lloyd's lover and I'll not be your spy.

01:46:20your secret service.

01:46:22my spy? what else are you talking about?

01:46:26do you understand at all what has happened to me?

01:46:29I have been dismissed from Marcia Blaine.

01:46:32why are you standing there talking about providence and the secret service?

01:46:37what is the matter with you?

01:46:39miss Brodie I am Teddy's lover.

01:46:45what?

01:46:46I am Teddy's lover.

01:46:50Teddy's lover?

01:46:53you!

01:46:54is that so difficult to believe?

01:46:56what does it matter to you which one of us it is? it doesn't matter to Teddy.

01:47:01whatever possessed you. you know his religion. how could a girl with a mind of her own have to do with a man who can't think for himself?

01:47:08that doesn't seem to have bothered either of us does it?

01:47:11we were neither of us very interested in his mind.

01:47:15how dare you speak to me in this manner?

01:47:19I suppose I've always known that one day you were going to ask how dare I?

01:47:24I don't understand. I don't seem to understand what has happened to everyone. where has everyone gone?

01:47:31only Mary is gone.

01:47:34Mary? what has Mary to do with it?

01:47:37miss Brodie Mary McGregor is dead!

01:47:43are you aware of the order of importance in which you place your anxieties?

01:47:481. you have been betrayed.

01:47:502. who is or is not to be your proxy in Teddy Lloyd's bed and 3. Mary's death.

01:47:57miss Brodie aren't you concerned at all with Mary's death?

01:48:00I grieve for Mary.

01:48:02it was because of you she went.

01:48:04because of me it was her brother the poor unfortunate girl hadn't anyone else in the world.

01:48:09she had you. that was her misfortune.

01:48:13to please you that silly stupid girl ran off and got herself killed.

01:48:17don't you feel responsible for that?

01:48:20no.

01:48:22no I feel responsible for giving her ideals.

01:48:25the ideals that sent her to Spain.

01:48:28I feel responsible for teaching her that service to a cause is a privilege.

01:48:32you call it a privilege to be killed.

01:48:35and for nothing. nothing!

01:48:38you really are a shallow girl Sandy.

01:48:41by the way she died. Mary McGregor illumined her life.

01:48:45she died a heroine. she died a fool!

01:48:48joining her brother to fight for Franco wasn't that just like Mary?

01:48:52her brother is fighting for the other side.

01:48:55her brother is fighting for the Republicans.

01:48:58Mary was headed for the wrong army.

01:49:03oh Mary McGregor.

01:49:05Mary McGregor.

01:49:07I used to wonder why I always called Mary by her full name.

01:49:10I think it was because you had such a hard time remembering who she was.

01:49:15poor dim Mary.

01:49:18I was devoted to Mary.

01:49:20no you were only attracted to Mary because she had no one else and she was so totally suggestible.

01:49:25she appealed to your vanity.

01:49:32it was you who betrayed me.

01:49:35I didn't betray you.

01:49:37I simply put a stop to you.

01:49:42oh.

01:49:45I see.

01:49:46no you don't see.

01:49:48you don't see that you're not good for people.

01:49:52in what way?

01:49:54in what way Sandy was I not good for you?

01:49:57you are dangerous and unwholesome and children should not be exposed to you.

01:50:02how can you think it? how can you think that I would harm you?

01:50:06but you have. you have harmed me.

01:50:08how?

01:50:09you have murdered Mary.

01:50:11you have assassinated me.

01:50:14oh why must you always strike attitudes?

01:50:16you really are a ridiculous woman.

01:50:37what will you do?

01:50:39now?

01:50:41do?

01:50:48I don't know.

01:50:54but I am a descendant do not forget of Willie Brodie.

01:50:59he was a man of substance.

01:51:02a cabinet maker and a designer of gibbets.

01:51:05a member of the town council of Edinburgh.

01:51:08the keeper of two mistresses who bought him five children between them.

01:51:12blood tells.

01:51:14he played much dice and fighting cocks.

01:51:17eventually he was a wanted man for having robbed the excise office.

01:51:21not that he needed the money.

01:51:23he was a burglar for the sake of the danger.

01:51:26he died cheerfully on a gibbet of his own devising in 1788.

01:51:31that is the stuff I am made of.

01:51:34I knew you would rise like a phoenix.

01:51:37I'm glad I shall not have to worry about you.

01:51:40no I expect that is to be your gift Sandy.

01:51:44to kill without concern.

01:51:47it is you who are dangerous.

01:51:50you see yourself as a conqueror don't you Sandy?

01:51:53Caesarian in all his beauty rare.

01:51:56but you profess to be a great admirer of conquerors.

01:52:00goodbye miss Brodie.

01:52:04goodbye Sandy.

01:52:24assassin!

01:52:28assassin!

01:52:30save me!

01:52:33lord dismiss us with thy blessing

01:52:38and for mercy's past receive

01:52:42pardon all their false confessing

01:52:47time that us may all retrieve

01:52:51may thy children

01:52:54may thy children

01:52:56never again my spirit leave

01:53:05today we say goodbye to those senior girls

01:53:09who are leaving Marcia Blaine for the last time.

01:53:13you girls are about to take your place

01:53:16in a larger more demanding world.

01:53:19in this world you will be called upon to make many moral decisions

01:53:23affecting not only your own lives

01:53:26but the lives of your families, your friends, your acquaintances.

01:53:31we are confident

01:53:33truly confident

01:53:35that the training you have received here in this school

01:53:38will have equipped you to face life's quandaries

01:53:41with courage and character.

01:53:44for here at Marcia Blaine

01:53:47we have done our best to nurture the virtuous woman

01:53:51for her price is far above rubies.

01:53:56let us pray.

01:54:13little girls

01:54:15I am in the business of putting old heads on young shoulders

01:54:20and all my pupils are the crème de la crème

01:54:25give me a girl at an impressionable age

01:54:30and she is mine for life.

01:54:43jean, jean

01:54:47roses are red

01:54:52all the leaves have gone green

01:54:58and the clouds are slow

01:55:01you can touch them

01:55:04and so

01:55:06come out to the meadow

01:55:09jean

01:55:13jean, jean

01:55:16you're young and alive

01:55:21come out of your house

01:55:24dream, dream

01:55:27and run if you will

01:55:31to the top of the hill

01:55:37open your arms

01:55:39on each

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