Maggie Smith bagged an Oscar as unorthodox teacher in 1930s Edinburgh. She believes she in her prime although she looks that she is slightly over the hill.
Miss Brodie also has an unhealthy obsession with strong fascist leaders such as Mussolini and Franco.
Smith plays Jean Brodie as a pompous, delusional spinster playing with the men who are infatuated with her. (Including her then real life husband Robert Stephens.) She equally manipulates her favourite students.
The essence of the film is that as a teacher she wants to encourage free thinking within her girls and seize the opportunities that life has to offer them.
However she shows a different face when confronted by one of her students, Sandy. Played very well by Pamela Franklin.
Sandy informed on Miss Brodie and hastens her demise due to one of the students fleeing to Spain to fight for the Franco side and ends up getting killed.
The film is well acted by some well known British actors. It has some location shooting in Edinburgh and captures the strong conservative and church ethos of the school and its inhabitants.
However the film suffers from not being opened up from its stage origins which the the later television series did.
Miss Brodie also has an unhealthy obsession with strong fascist leaders such as Mussolini and Franco.
Smith plays Jean Brodie as a pompous, delusional spinster playing with the men who are infatuated with her. (Including her then real life husband Robert Stephens.) She equally manipulates her favourite students.
The essence of the film is that as a teacher she wants to encourage free thinking within her girls and seize the opportunities that life has to offer them.
However she shows a different face when confronted by one of her students, Sandy. Played very well by Pamela Franklin.
Sandy informed on Miss Brodie and hastens her demise due to one of the students fleeing to Spain to fight for the Franco side and ends up getting killed.
The film is well acted by some well known British actors. It has some location shooting in Edinburgh and captures the strong conservative and church ethos of the school and its inhabitants.
However the film suffers from not being opened up from its stage origins which the the later television series did.