Bette Davis encrusted in old-age makeup as a noble English schoolteacher assigned to a hopelessly poor mining village in Wales; she sacrifices everything she has (including her reputation) to give her most brilliant student (John Dall, later of Hitchcock's
Rope) some chance of fulfilling his promise. Irving Rapper (
Now, Voyager) directed, from a celebrated stage piece by Emlyn Williams; with Joan Loring, Nigel Bruce, Arthur Shields, and Mildred Dunnock (1945, 114 min.).
By
Dave Kehr
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