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Strange to say, Rattigan's screenplay not only makes this possible, but does it. And social class was the pillar supporting the exclusive boarding schools like the one where Chips teaches. By modernizing the action, Rattigan has made it possible for the movie to mirror changes in the English class structure during the two decades when it was most obviously becoming obsolete. I don't object to this the Hilton story was a best seller but hardly a work of art. In the current version, writer Terence Rattigan has moved the action from the late 19th Century to a period between about 1922 and the end of the World War II. James Hilton's novel of a gentle English schoolmaster was first made into a movie in 1939, and Robert Donat won an Academy Award as Chips.
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