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Feb 02, 2013akirakato rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
This remake of the 1939 film burst onto screens during the exuberant movie-musicals era of "My Fair Lady" and "The Sound of Music." The charming story of a shy schoolmaster whose narrow world opens wide through the power of love has all the right ingredients: a history as a beloved novel and nonmusical movie; legendary talents working magic off camera; and on-camera alchemy from a marquee cast, including Petula Clark, Michael Redgrave, Sian Phillips and, in the title role, Peter O'Toole. His endeaqring and nuanced performance earned him 1969's Best Actor Golden Globe and National Board of Review Awards, a Best Actor Oscar nomination---and a lasting place in musicals lore. Peter O'Toole has never been better and he gives Chips an air of genuine, if seedy, grandeur that shines through dozens of make-up changes. Petula Clark sparkles as Katherine Bridges. Both O'Toole and Clark perform quite well, if not in the best, and I can see the obvious chemistry between them. Rarely have a pair of players been so marvelously in tune with each other as Peter O'Toole and Petula Clark.