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  • @russellcampbell9198
    @russellcampbell9198 2 роки тому +218

    Pamela Franklin was astonishingly great in this.

    • @richardcurry4912
      @richardcurry4912 3 місяці тому +5

      She was very pretty.

    • @swordscot
      @swordscot 3 місяці тому +11

      She should have won Best Supporting Actress that year

    • @HuntingViolets
      @HuntingViolets 3 місяці тому +2

      She should have. It might have made a difference in her career if she had.

    • @stephenbaker5413
      @stephenbaker5413 3 місяці тому +2

      Pamela Franklin was a superb young actress and was a child star as well,she had quite a good career in America she was in Six Million Dollar Man,Fantasy Island etc,is she still acting? Because if she isn't it's a great shame😢

    • @HuntingViolets
      @HuntingViolets 3 місяці тому +8

      @@stephenbaker5413 She quit because, after going to Hollywood, she was pigeonholed in TV roles. She married another actor and they and their son have a bookshop in L.A. She is one of my favorite actresses ever, and, although I've read she's very happy (and certainly has had a much longer marriage than most stars who stayed in the business), I do selfishly wish she had done more acting roles and received more accolades.

  • @jeremyknight1059
    @jeremyknight1059 Рік тому +111

    Pamela Franklin really pulls this off so well.

  • @dr.calebrobbins.3177
    @dr.calebrobbins.3177 2 роки тому +84

    This is a first class acting example by two of Britain,'s actresses. One of my favourite movies.

  • @LesRobertson-n7x
    @LesRobertson-n7x 3 місяці тому +110

    As astonishing now as it was in 1969 when I first saw it. Rest in Peace Dame Maggie. You were always in your prime!

    • @Zimbrabim
      @Zimbrabim 3 місяці тому +6

      And her accent - or should I say eccent? - was impeccable. I-M-P-E-C-C-A-B-L-E, from the prefix "im", meaning "not", and the Latin "peccare" meaning "to sin". Which is to say, it was spot on. The Oscar was more than deserved.

    • @peterjrmoore3941
      @peterjrmoore3941 3 місяці тому +1

      yes an amazing scene

    • @frankdenardo8684
      @frankdenardo8684 3 місяці тому +2

      She was a wonderful actress.

    • @paulyeatman303
      @paulyeatman303 3 місяці тому

      ​@@Zimbrabimjajajajajaja you're too funny. Bravo for a great comment.

  • @tomodonovan5931
    @tomodonovan5931 3 роки тому +140

    That little smirk on Celia Johnson's face. Do you Ms. Brodie! The cat that ate the canary look.
    Excellent acting!

    • @markwhitman9029
      @markwhitman9029 Рік тому +8

      Celia was great but her character a jealous B

    • @naly202
      @naly202 3 місяці тому +12

      Gosh! Is that Celia Johnson?
      I was looking for videos of the late and great Maggie, wasn't expecting to see Celia. I saw her in "In Which We Serve", "Brief Encounter" and "Astonished Heart"- wonderful actress.
      She looks so changed here, could hardly recognise her.

    • @HuntingViolets
      @HuntingViolets 3 місяці тому +2

      I think she felt something was off with Brodie. And there was more than she perhaps ever found out.

    • @tomodonovan5931
      @tomodonovan5931 3 місяці тому +2

      @@HuntingViolets She simply just did not like Ms. Brodie's teaching methods
      period. Her smirk was the ace up the sleeve moment. It was checkmate.

    • @HuntingViolets
      @HuntingViolets 3 місяці тому +2

      @@tomodonovan5931 Miss Brodie's teaching methods involved pretending to teach mathematics while telling about her dead love, uplifting fascist dictators, and selecting which student she thought should be the lover to her ex-lover. Although of course she didn't know all of that, but she knew the girls were bad at math and Miss Brodie showed inappropriate favoritism to her "set."

  • @Studentofgosset
    @Studentofgosset 7 місяців тому +112

    What a killer line - "Are you aware of the order of importance in which you place your anxieties?"

    • @richardsmith1799
      @richardsmith1799 3 місяці тому +1

      You can't over-value anxieties too much now.

    • @chrislyon7147
      @chrislyon7147 3 місяці тому +1

      The modern media concerns itself with little else.

    • @bestdisco1979
      @bestdisco1979 2 місяці тому

      Killer line

  • @Scottsteaux63
    @Scottsteaux63 11 років тому +563

    Maggie Smith richly deserved the Oscar she won, but in this scene one's eyes are continually drawn to nineteen-year-old Pamela Franklin as she faces down the teacher she once admired and has now betrayed to the headmistress. This is one of the greatest scenes between two actors ever filmed.

    • @captaincrunch8333
      @captaincrunch8333 2 роки тому +8

      Thanks for blowing the plot.
      I haven't had the chance to go out and see this movie yet..

    • @Polo-po
      @Polo-po 2 роки тому +46

      @@captaincrunch8333 Whatcha been waiting for - Christmas?

    • @CliveNDerek
      @CliveNDerek 2 роки тому +36

      @@captaincrunch8333 I guess you were busy in 1969, 1979, 1989, 1999 . . . it's still worth watching, Captain!

    • @captaincrunch8333
      @captaincrunch8333 Рік тому +5

      @@glfer8586 Time flies, my friend.

    • @williamhancock6489
      @williamhancock6489 Рік тому +15

      Captain, the movie came out in 1968.

  • @susanwatson8691
    @susanwatson8691 2 місяці тому +4

    Jean Brodie was a monster. This was an amazing performance from Maggie Smith and the rest of the cast.
    I saw this on the tv at thirteen and was appalled by her 😂

  • @gregherried5189
    @gregherried5189 6 років тому +128

    This is probably the best scene in the unforgettable movie The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, this scene with Maggie Smith and Pamela Franklin. Maggie Smith gave a brilliant and haunting performance as Miss Brodie, one of the most deserving Best Actress Oscar winners. Pamela Franklin was also excellent in the role of Sandy who is advanced beyond her age. The two actresses couldn't have been better in this movie. Miss Franklin definitely deserved a Best Supporting Actress nomination as did Celia Johnson as the headmistress. All of them did wonderful accents of women from Scotland. I never get tired of watching this classic movie.

    • @markwhitman9029
      @markwhitman9029 Рік тому +6

      Yes Pamela and Celia should have been nominated. I really hated Miss Mackay and that is the reason Celia was superb!

    • @kenoliver8913
      @kenoliver8913 Рік тому +4

      All true, but Maggie Smith was speaking in her native accent.

    • @huangec
      @huangec Рік тому +5

      ​@@kenoliver8913surely not. She is English.

    • @mphrdldn
      @mphrdldn 5 місяців тому +5

      I was so appalled by Brodie’s coaching of Jenny, Mary McGregor and Sandy, I was for the headmistress.

    • @tommoncrieff1154
      @tommoncrieff1154 5 місяців тому +1

      @@mphrdldnOnly because we have hindsight. We know what happened next whereas Miss Brodie knew only what had gone before.

  • @johnjolson4627
    @johnjolson4627 10 років тому +230

    A wonderful actor once described good acting as essentially "listening and simply reacting." My God, this is a master class of show-casing acting with this idea front and centre. Maggie Smith is forever brilliant, but much credit goes to Pamela Franklin - she wholly held her own (as Sandy) in this scene and withered not a bit when it fully mattered.

    • @steveb1164
      @steveb1164 2 роки тому +10

      Franklin should have been at least nominated for an an Oscar--if not the win--for portraying Sandy. She deserved one for "The legend of Hell House", too.

    • @TheBeliever1204
      @TheBeliever1204 3 місяці тому

      Sandy. She was a viscious nasty piece of work.

    • @HuntingViolets
      @HuntingViolets 3 місяці тому

      True.

  • @charleshudson5330
    @charleshudson5330 5 років тому +110

    This scene remains one of the best between two actors on film. Wonderful movie. Incredible Maggie. Extraordinary Pamela.

  • @NeilBHINRGBOY
    @NeilBHINRGBOY 4 роки тому +44

    Pamela Franklin.. What a fantastic performance.

  • @kenoliver8913
    @kenoliver8913 Рік тому +28

    Stunningly memorable dialogue in this recognition scene, a wonderful climax to the film. Great acting performances, yes, but only made possible by great writing.

    • @kevinchambers1101
      @kevinchambers1101 3 місяці тому

      Yes, the writing was brilliant.

    • @SuperBookdragon
      @SuperBookdragon 3 місяці тому +1

      The book is fantastic

    • @Rozsaphile
      @Rozsaphile Місяць тому

      The writing is by Jay Presson Allen (with director Ronald Neame). There is no final confrontation in Spark's novel, which has an unusual flashback/forward structure.

  • @johnfletcher9410
    @johnfletcher9410 5 років тому +126

    Pamela Frankie's performance in this scene was masterful. What a rare gift she had.

    • @steveb1164
      @steveb1164 Рік тому +4

      And still has.

    • @markwhitman9029
      @markwhitman9029 Рік тому +3

      When she outwitted Miss Mackay early on about going to Crammond then told her off when Mackay tried to fire her LOL!!

    • @bostonblackie9503
      @bostonblackie9503 3 місяці тому +5

      Pamala Franklin said it was a mistake going to the States, career wise. Those in the profession only saw her as a TV actress. When you see this scene you realise what a wonderful film actress she was and one concludes could only have climbed higher.

    • @loopshackr
      @loopshackr 3 місяці тому +3

      @@bostonblackie9503 Pamela Franklin discussed this in her commentary included on the 2004 DVD release of this movie.

    • @HuntingViolets
      @HuntingViolets 3 місяці тому +1

      It’s too bad she retired (I understand she’s quite happy with it, though) from lack of good roles being offered her.

  • @hapgood22
    @hapgood22 Рік тому +66

    "Mary was headed for the wrong army" is both a very funny line, and a tragic one.

    • @salaciousness
      @salaciousness 8 місяців тому +1

      How so?

    • @debbiethompson14
      @debbiethompson14 3 місяці тому +16

      ​@salaciousness Mary thought that she was headed to find a long side. Her brother let miss Brody hot that the brother was fighting WITH Franco when in actually, he was fighting against Franco. So basically, Mary was headed to fight against her brother! Jean brodie was so consumed with her own fantasy that she didn't even bother to find out which army the brother was fighting for.

    • @kalevala29
      @kalevala29 3 місяці тому +5

      @@salaciousness Because Mary is portrayed as being simple.

    • @mphrdldn
      @mphrdldn 2 місяці тому

      @@salaciousnessThe art teacher was shocked at Mary’s plans. It provided foreshadowing.

  • @markwhitman9029
    @markwhitman9029 5 місяців тому +46

    I was awestruck in 1969 when I first saw this film and now as an old man of 74 that feeling has never left me. Maggie Smith and the entire cast are a masterclass of acting! Maggie"s Jean Brodie is performance is at the TOP of one of the greatest portrayals in the history of cinema!

    • @kaykeelan4712
      @kaykeelan4712 3 місяці тому +5

      I saw the original then too - I'm almost 76. It is a brilliant film.

  • @jaccusefashion
    @jaccusefashion 12 років тому +84

    They are both amazing here....Pam Franklin is frighteningly good.

    • @photo161
      @photo161 3 місяці тому

      ...you're easily frightened...

  • @edwardnashen5960
    @edwardnashen5960 7 місяців тому +52

    Maggie Smith is just brilliant! A well deserved Oscar!

    • @track1949
      @track1949 6 місяців тому +3

      I wonder if she had any idea what a long and accomplished she would have back when this was made. ❤

  • @GroovyShelly
    @GroovyShelly Рік тому +64

    The best scene in a brilliant film. Maggie Smith was magnificent and Ms Franklin matched her note for note

    • @frankdenardo8684
      @frankdenardo8684 3 місяці тому

      The late Dame Maggie Smith deserved the Oscar for best actress for her role as school teacher.

  • @StonefieldJim4
    @StonefieldJim4 9 років тому +126

    I'd forgotten how electrifying this scene is!

    • @jfhow
      @jfhow 5 років тому +3

      back when movies had real drama

    • @loveispatient0808
      @loveispatient0808 5 років тому +4

      James Williams I can never forget this scene since watching it in 1969 as a 17 year old teenager!

    • @storykeeper8684
      @storykeeper8684 3 місяці тому

      @@loveispatient0808 Yes. It's stuck with me since then, too.

  • @bryans9008
    @bryans9008 11 років тому +82

    "Do you Miss Brodie?"... a fleetingly knowing smile crosses Miss Mc Kay's lips..

  • @stevencheatham5041
    @stevencheatham5041 4 роки тому +63

    I loved Pamela Franklin in this movie, she deserved an Oscar just like the great Maggie Smith.

    • @storykeeper8684
      @storykeeper8684 3 місяці тому +5

      Yes, I thought she was fantastic. She carried this film.

  • @tommoncrieff1154
    @tommoncrieff1154 3 місяці тому +9

    Maggie Smith left us today so I came to view this scene once more. She has been one of our greatest actors ever. Here, of course, her fellow players shine brilliantly too, Muriel Spark’s creation of Jean Brodie is an astonishing achievement on the page, and the dialogue adaptation here is superb. But it’s Maggie who ascends to the height of artistic greatness in this scene, one reason she became beloved and admired the world over.

  • @mikehansen3508
    @mikehansen3508 Рік тому +26

    This scene alone is the reason why I love this movie!

  • @MrJoseebus
    @MrJoseebus 3 місяці тому +21

    That split second where the façade drops for Miss Brodie when Sandy asks what she will do now, only to lapse right back into her toxic nonsense… Breathtaking scene.

  • @triciajohansen7124
    @triciajohansen7124 3 місяці тому +19

    I LOVE Maggie's purple dress!!!! Simple, but beautiful, tasteful, and jewel toned!❤

  • @jonchess8844
    @jonchess8844 4 роки тому +29

    Acting cannot and will not be better than this. Maggie Smith gives a virtuoso performance, but the supporting cast deserves much praise as well . 👍👍

  • @bkrav1847
    @bkrav1847 6 років тому +33

    One of the greatest scenes in all cinema. Unforgettable.

    • @photo161
      @photo161 3 місяці тому

      ...a cat fight, with pretensions

  • @JHarder1000
    @JHarder1000 4 роки тому +36

    Maggire Smitth, Pamela Franklin, and Cela Johnson. Some of the greatest acting ever. And Gordon Jackson sings very well.

  • @lindajackson2382
    @lindajackson2382 3 місяці тому +4

    Brilliant Dame Maggie Smith! THIS is why you won the Oscar for this iconic film! RIP

  • @BrodieVickers-tk9sd
    @BrodieVickers-tk9sd 3 місяці тому +19

    *_RIP_* Maggie❤She lived a long fulfilled life, but will still be sorely missed. I can remember this movie always being shown in highlights of her work, which always stood out to me because it was the youngest I'd ever seen her in anything. With her passing, I think I'll finally get around to watching 'Jean Brodie' during these next few days.

    • @zyxw2000
      @zyxw2000 3 місяці тому +5

      YT has it for free.

    • @ViolettaD1485
      @ViolettaD1485 3 місяці тому +3

      See her in a minor part in _The Pumkpin Eater._ She steals every scene she's in.

    • @BrodieVickers-tk9sd
      @BrodieVickers-tk9sd 3 місяці тому +2

      @@ViolettaD1485 Thanks I will.

  • @timogriffith
    @timogriffith 10 років тому +214

    Pamela Franklin is simply amazing. She goes from young school girl to shattered innocent to responsible young woman going toe to toe with her unbalanced, pathetic mentor. And winning. Sublime, infinitely nuanced performance. So, so underrated and so, so sadly forgotten. Far better than any supporting actress since.

    • @arthurwebber-g4l
      @arthurwebber-g4l 3 місяці тому +2

      Pamela Franklin was a cracking little STAR.

    • @storykeeper8684
      @storykeeper8684 3 місяці тому +1

      Never forgotten.

    • @kenoliver8913
      @kenoliver8913 3 місяці тому +6

      Miss Brodie is indeed unbalanced and, from many viewpoints, pathetic. She is a genuine narcissist. But she also has a true magnificence and a sharp intelligence - the impact she had on her girls' lives was not all negative, despite what Sandy thinks in this scene. Part of the greatness of Smith's performance over the film is she captures that. The (very good) book also captures that because it can, being a book, have a lot more exposition.

    • @njplr
      @njplr 2 місяці тому

      ​​@@kenoliver8913 Very well observed. Miss Brodie's narcissism is like, yet utterly unlike, two contemporary narcissists, Meghan Markle and Donald Trump. There is as you say, an underlying magnificence to hers, with a strong positive undercurrent. Muriel Spark wrote a masterpiece with this book, as did the actresses who brought it to life.

    • @HymnfortheDudes
      @HymnfortheDudes 2 місяці тому

      I wonder if much was said regarding the paedophile teacher at the time or was it just brushed off as one of those things, where teachers took occasional advantage.

  • @exquisitesplendor7175
    @exquisitesplendor7175 3 роки тому +24

    This and the scene where Ms. McKay tries to dismiss her, are the most epic in the movie.

    • @markwhitman9029
      @markwhitman9029 Рік тому +3

      Oh I know loved when Brodie tells Mackay off. I applauded

    • @Jack-ke5uv
      @Jack-ke5uv 2 місяці тому

      If Miss Brodie had belonged to a teachers' union she would have had at least a hearing to defend herself against the rather vague charges. Without a union teachers are often at the mercy of revengeful and jealous principals and or handpicked committees that care nothing about teachers and their concerns.

  • @midnightchannel111
    @midnightchannel111 2 місяці тому +1

    My mother was a Miss Brodie. Destroyed lives. This film helped me a lot.

    • @punch6832
      @punch6832 26 днів тому

      I’m so sorry. I hope you’re doing better.

  • @shan0997
    @shan0997 2 роки тому +20

    Maggie is and always will be an icon. But nineteen year old, Pamela Franklin did a brilliant job with this supporting role. Too bad she quit acting. I hope it was her choice, and she wasn't forced out of the industry.
    However, she did become a great bodybuilder.
    So I'm guessing she was always one to be an achiever. Great movie! ❤❤

    • @steveb1164
      @steveb1164 Рік тому +12

      She cut back to raise her children and have a family. The bodybuilder is a different Pamela Franklin.

    • @pollyparrot9447
      @pollyparrot9447 3 місяці тому +6

      The 1970s was not a good decade for actresses. Very few good roles for women, and only a handful of stars getting them. The likes of Maggie Smith, Judy Dench and Diana Rigg achieved career longevity by being accomplished in theatre as well as film and television.

    • @storykeeper8684
      @storykeeper8684 3 місяці тому +4

      She was a strong female actress who quit the business when Hollywood wouldn't expand her opportunities.

    • @bostonblackie9503
      @bostonblackie9503 3 місяці тому +4

      Ms Franklin said going to the States was a bad career move. She was seen as only a TV actress. They only had to look at her resume to see differently. Jenny Agutter face the same sort of thing. On being considered for Logan's Run the director only saw her as "Jenny Augutter The Railway Children." It took a lot of convincing for him to see her differently.

    • @HuntingViolets
      @HuntingViolets 3 місяці тому

      I wonder why she didn’t try in England again after.

  • @miamidolphinsfan
    @miamidolphinsfan 6 років тому +25

    One of the best scenes EVER .....written by a genius and flawlessly acted by brilliant actors

  • @SirWestmountParker
    @SirWestmountParker 2 місяці тому +2

    Love the dialogue and mesmerized by the acting.

  • @suzycreamcheesez4371
    @suzycreamcheesez4371 6 років тому +12

    amazing scene Pamela Franklin is mesmerizing Shouldve won the Oscar

    • @AngryBeaver60
      @AngryBeaver60 Рік тому +1

      This was the best role in her career.

  • @marioescalante4401
    @marioescalante4401 7 років тому +32

    I saw this on TV some years ago and was blown away by Maggie’s acting in this film. Until that day when this was on television I’ve only really known Maggie as an ‘older’ actor either as a: reverend mother, strict old lady in the Secret Garden, racist old lady in “Marigold Hotel,” and McGonagall. So it’s a treat to see her as a young woman playing such a manipulative character like Jean Brodie.

    • @markwhitman9029
      @markwhitman9029 Рік тому +4

      Maggie awesome throughout and when Brodie almost descended into madness with monologue during the film slide segment, dear lord what a performance.

    • @paulamiles9559
      @paulamiles9559 Рік тому

      I am the same age as Pamela Franklin and was a huge fan of hers always. It was because of her I watched this movie when it was new, and was introduced to Maggie Smith. When I watched Miss Smith in any role- Poor Aunt Charlotte, Maggie McGonagall or Judith Herne, I always imagined that character had once been Jean Brodie.

  • @mirtikaschultz3282
    @mirtikaschultz3282 5 місяців тому +9

    Such a powerful scene and so marvelously acted. Maggie is a jewel.

  • @zyxw2000
    @zyxw2000 3 місяці тому +5

    Brodie never regrets her actions, so self-righteous and un-self-aware. First time I saw Maggie, 1969, and it was marvelous.

  • @jamesmonroe7751
    @jamesmonroe7751 4 роки тому +19

    Pam should have gotten the Oscar too! What a performance! Whatever happened to her? In the early seventies she was everywhere!

    • @HuntingViolets
      @HuntingViolets 3 місяці тому +2

      She retired early and raised a family. I think they owned a bookstore too. I do wish she’d make a comeback.

  • @larciabella
    @larciabella 6 років тому +9

    I can't stop watching this scene!

  • @leightonolsson4846
    @leightonolsson4846 3 місяці тому +16

    Watching this again I appreciate just what an amazing performance Pamela Franklin gave; also that I never realised that the actress also played the ever so slightly creepy little girl in another superlative film - "The Innocents'

    • @HuntingViolets
      @HuntingViolets 3 місяці тому

      One of the best actresses to ever grace film.

    • @Rozsaphile
      @Rozsaphile 10 днів тому

      Her performance in "The Innocents" can be credited to director Jack Clayton. Franklin, aged 11, didn't even understand the story. But check out "The Third Secret" (1964), where she shows remarkable growth in a difficult role at age 14.

  • @rockeroller
    @rockeroller 2 роки тому +7

    The writing is so good in this. Everything is.

  • @emmaduncan2991
    @emmaduncan2991 6 років тому +14

    this scene should be mandatory viewing in acting classes!

  • @ryangreen2469
    @ryangreen2469 4 роки тому +22

    Magnificent ! - Brilliant !
    These two fine actors really showcased their talent in this scene.
    Wish that Pamela Franklin would have gotten greater parts like here to bring out her talent, love how she just walks calmly as Maggie screams ASSASSIN !!
    Ooo...So Cold ....

    • @redcardinalist
      @redcardinalist 2 місяці тому

      >>Ooo...So Cold ....
      Well exept that the next scen (the end of the movie) shows her (and the other girls) leaving school at the end of the school day and a tear goes down her cheek (whilst Miss Brodies line "Give me a girl at an impressionable age..." plays). So not so cold I would suggest.
      Actually, if anyone is cold (or perhaps not "cold" but calcuating?) it'sMiss Brodie setting up her pupil Jenny as the lover of Mr Lloyd.

  • @hervepp1
    @hervepp1 4 роки тому +22

    Amazing performances. Franklin should at least have had an oscar nod that year, and could even have won over Hawn. Had there been a tie as the year before, Smith and Jean Simmons were both deserving for best actress.

    • @markwhitman9029
      @markwhitman9029 Рік тому

      Omg Goldie Hawn and Pamela wasn't even nominated? Ridiculous! Never cared for the contrived acting of Hawn! Even on Laugh-in the ditsy blond image had been done a thousand times before!

  • @charleshudson5330
    @charleshudson5330 4 роки тому +14

    I have adored this movie since the first time I saw it when it came out. This scene is one of many standouts.

  • @BriGuyIL1980
    @BriGuyIL1980 5 років тому +82

    "We neither of us were very interested in his mind."
    God damn, that's the sickest burn I've ever heard.

    • @elizabethbowie9753
      @elizabethbowie9753 2 роки тому

      & how many guys take advantage of girls, women, .... Bcz they're not interested in the girls', womens"' Minds. Women get "burned," all the time, & no one gives a flip.

    • @markwhitman9029
      @markwhitman9029 Рік тому +7

      I know very shocking and you'd think Miss Brodie would have slapped her face LOL

    • @BriGuyIL1980
      @BriGuyIL1980 Рік тому +9

      @@markwhitman9029 You can tell she was restraining herself with all her strength from doing just that. That's a reason Maggie Smith won that Oscar.

    • @HuntingViolets
      @HuntingViolets 3 місяці тому

      She would have gotten slapped back.

  • @treesny
    @treesny 10 місяців тому +20

    Pamela Franklin played Flora, one of the two ghost-haunted children, in The Innocents (1961), a screen adaptation of Henry James's The Turn of the Screw, starring Deborah Kerr. So two fine performances at a young age!

  • @beverlybradley5485
    @beverlybradley5485 3 місяці тому +9

    I honestly hope no one tries to do a remake of this movie, no actress could do this role any justice, Dame Maggie made this her own, every thing she did was perfection, she was a great actress and national treasure.

    • @HuntingViolets
      @HuntingViolets 3 місяці тому

      Geraldine McEwan played the role on television.

  • @tinahernandez-zudell1399
    @tinahernandez-zudell1399 3 роки тому +7

    I really love this scene.
    🙂♥️

  • @kevq761
    @kevq761 4 роки тому +5

    Such a wonderful , superb actress. The best of British

  • @johnwhiting5747
    @johnwhiting5747 5 років тому +29

    One of the finest performances in the English language. I love Maggie Smith!

  • @gwendolynbeecroft512
    @gwendolynbeecroft512 3 роки тому +12

    This was a wonderful scene. Great movie. Maggie always brings something special to a movie.

  • @iamjetl
    @iamjetl 5 років тому +14

    God I love this movie, this scene, and most especially Maggie Smith in this role so much it actually hurts really!

  • @rochellestarr9538
    @rochellestarr9538 3 місяці тому +4

    This film made me want to be an actor and a teacher.40 years later I am still putting young actors on the stage.Only a handful of actors are legend and even less are my heroes.Dame Maggie Smith was both . Sadly and wonderfully, suddenly.... Heaven,just became more entertaining.

  • @willowmadhuridixit8991
    @willowmadhuridixit8991 6 років тому +7

    Utterly sublime.

  • @TechnicJunglist
    @TechnicJunglist 3 місяці тому +9

    RIP Maggie and thank you for everything.

  • @emilyn12
    @emilyn12 11 років тому +28

    Such a great movie.

    • @emilyn12
      @emilyn12 11 років тому +1

      I will :-). I think I found a site where I can watch older movies. I feel like watching "Do they shoot horses, don't they?" with Jane Fonda.

    • @emilyn12
      @emilyn12 11 років тому

      you know, when I read your posts, some are so sad. I know that the 2008 financial crisis hit you hard. But did you manage to get ahead? Do you have a family? Children? Obviously, it can also be a nightmare but most of the time, it can be comforting. Become you seem active, do you get some satisfaction out of it? I agree with you:getting older in not much fun. But I am a bit exentrix, according to people around me,also a bit of a child women. enjoying making imitation, criticizing politics...Am I happy? Some time. Do I think being death would better? Probably.
      I laugh, entertain people, smile...and feel dark inside. But it is easier to hold.that darkness. :-)

    • @emilyn12
      @emilyn12 11 років тому

      let me be your friend. It is safe, sincere and sometime, it is very entertaining. :-)

    • @emilyn12
      @emilyn12 11 років тому

      it is always nice to know that someone care about you! :-)

    • @emilyn12
      @emilyn12 11 років тому

      this is the channel where you can find newer movies but also older's ones, like "What ever happened to baby Jane" tubeplus.me :-)

  • @necktieguy1
    @necktieguy1 3 місяці тому +2

    One of the greatest performances ever put on film. Thanks for this post.

  • @DavidSmith-lu7xv
    @DavidSmith-lu7xv 2 місяці тому +5

    Let us not forget the quality of the writing story and dialogue by Muriel Spark

    • @Rozsaphile
      @Rozsaphile Місяць тому

      And Jay Presson Allen. The final confrontation is entirely hers.

  • @kindangenmilan5114
    @kindangenmilan5114 2 роки тому +7

    I love Mrs. Maggie’s accent.

  • @bluesbulletin
    @bluesbulletin 7 років тому +6

    SUCH a good movie!

  • @dragonfly1963100
    @dragonfly1963100 5 місяців тому +4

    I remember loving this movie as a young girl. I just thought it was so wonderful. I’m 61 now so I was a kid when this movie came out lol but It had quite an impact on me.

  • @harrybranches9586
    @harrybranches9586 9 місяців тому +3

    Great acting. Maggie Smith is pure perfection... Don't think anybody else could play this role as well as she did. I'd love to see all the cast together today. I'm sure theirs some still living

  • @tadimaggio
    @tadimaggio Рік тому +26

    Anyone who admires Pamela Franklin as an actress should look at her first great performance as Flora in "The Innocents", probably the greatest ghost story ever filmed. Anyone who -- as a child! -- can hold the screen opposite Deborah Kerr is unequivocally the Real Deal.

    • @loge10
      @loge10 4 місяці тому +7

      I'm with you - to carry her own with Deborah Kerr at such a young age, and then this 8 years later with Maggie Smith...well, I fell in love with her in the early seventies when I first started college. She deserve to higher level career.

    • @bostonblackie9503
      @bostonblackie9503 3 місяці тому +3

      Deborah Kerr said the movie, which was not a success upon realse, was under appropriated in it's time. I believe Pamala Franklin was 11 years old when she made that movie but looked so much younger.

    • @stevenzumbrun6105
      @stevenzumbrun6105 2 місяці тому

      Pamela also did well in "The Nanny". She went up against some formidable actresses in her young days--Deborah Kerr, Bette Davis, AND Maggie Smith!

    • @Rozsaphile
      @Rozsaphile Місяць тому

      That was, of course, a *directed* performance, elicited by director Jack Clayton. Young Pamela didn't even understand the story. But check her out in "The Third Secret" (1964). You can see her developing into a skilled actress at fourteen.

  • @lisaoreilly8287
    @lisaoreilly8287 3 місяці тому +2

    Kaiserarian!! What a script! But delivered by a genius. Thank you Maggie for everything! Be a peace…

    • @zyxw2000
      @zyxw2000 3 місяці тому

      Caesarian. "Caesar" is pronounced with a "K" sound in Latin.

  • @frankdenardo8684
    @frankdenardo8684 3 місяці тому +1

    The late Dame Maggie Smith was brilliant playing the role of a school teacher, and her being the winner of the Oscar for best actress was very well deserved. Thanks for the legacy you left us.

  • @swordscot
    @swordscot 4 роки тому +31

    An acting masterclass. All drama students should be aware of this.

    • @markwhitman9029
      @markwhitman9029 Рік тому +1

      They should be aware of this but sadly most probably look to Meryl Streep as an example to watch and I for one never could stomach her

    • @gauravw6947
      @gauravw6947 9 місяців тому +2

      ⁠​⁠​⁠@@markwhitman9029 Just because you can’t stomach Meryl, doesn’t mean that she shouldn’t be look up to as an example by drama students… Meryl is one of the greatest actresses alive, along with Dame Maggie and many others… Pushing one legend down the bus to uplift another, doesn’t really help your flawed argument…

  • @juancarlosucedaperez3815
    @juancarlosucedaperez3815 5 років тому +10

    5:48 and 8:04 Outstanding performance. Look at her way to walk, look and talk simultaneously... AMAZING!!! The great Maggie Smith... the British Meryl Streep!!

    • @quocanhnguyen9002
      @quocanhnguyen9002 2 роки тому +2

      Nahhh.. meryl streep is american maggie smith!

    • @DavidJohnson-yq4nz
      @DavidJohnson-yq4nz 2 роки тому

      Rediculous comment

    • @markwhitman9029
      @markwhitman9029 Рік тому +1

      @@quocanhnguyen9002 I was just about to say the same thing BUT Meryl no where near Dame Maggie's level

    • @quocanhnguyen9002
      @quocanhnguyen9002 Рік тому

      @@markwhitman9029 what about sophie's choice

    • @markwhitman9029
      @markwhitman9029 Рік тому

      @@quocanhnguyen9002 I've always thought Meryl overrated but did like her in Silkwood. To me she's a good but not great actress that does accents fine

  • @teressaalcantara5762
    @teressaalcantara5762 3 місяці тому +3

    This was a great film and she kept her. Dignity up to the end. She played a very good part. And a romantic part but kept her sprit up. Loved this film. She had all the other teachers jealous of her.

    • @zyxw2000
      @zyxw2000 3 місяці тому +2

      But she did do harm to her students, especially Mary. Self-righteous, and never regretting what she had done.

  • @lucifermorningstar5738
    @lucifermorningstar5738 11 років тому +81

    This film is a classic formula of a femmes fatale. Jean Brodie represents Venus the classic beauty, pride, frivolous desire, and love, always wanting to be on a pedestal and while Sandy represents Diana the moon goddess a huntress waiting patiently for the kill, cold, calculating, insight, and honesty. This film is wonderfully done.

  • @free..to..air..
    @free..to..air.. 3 місяці тому +3

    Nobody could do put downs quite as good as Maggie Smith....classic lines in classic films...She was the queen of ironic delivery

  • @rr7firefly
    @rr7firefly 4 місяці тому +3

    This was one incredible movie. Coming at the peak of Maggie Smith's illustrious career in the movies.

  • @thomascassidy8347
    @thomascassidy8347 5 місяців тому +7

    I love these two together ❤❤

  • @2legit64
    @2legit64 7 років тому +9

    "ASSASSIN!" Maggie Smith is a marvel.

  • @triciajohansen7124
    @triciajohansen7124 3 місяці тому +7

    RIP Dame Maggie Smith, you will ALWAYS be Reverend Mother from "Sister Act"🙏❤

    • @HuntingViolets
      @HuntingViolets 3 місяці тому

      An interesting comment to make on a clip from a different movie.

    • @triciajohansen7124
      @triciajohansen7124 3 місяці тому

      @@HuntingViolets I liked her both movies. This was made before I was born. I found out about her after watching her in Sister Act . Then, I checked out this movie

    • @HuntingViolets
      @HuntingViolets 3 місяці тому

      @@triciajohansen7124 It just kind of amused me. :)

    • @triciajohansen7124
      @triciajohansen7124 3 місяці тому +1

      @@HuntingViolets so did Dame Maggie!

  • @annemorris9760
    @annemorris9760 3 місяці тому +1

    Brilliant scene; such brilliant acting on the part of both actors; gripping deliveries.

  • @eggsykingsman4777
    @eggsykingsman4777 5 років тому +12

    She is so beautiful even if she's getting older now.

  • @loge10
    @loge10 4 місяці тому +3

    As many other comments here seem to agree, Pamela Franklin was great in this film. As a male college freshman when I first saw this, I fell in love with her - and I don't think I ever got over it. She really deserved a higher level career.

  • @PatrickBOng-dq4ex
    @PatrickBOng-dq4ex 6 років тому +9

    The legendary MAGGIE SMITH.

  • @timothygriffith8583
    @timothygriffith8583 10 років тому +146

    Pamela Franklin should have won the Oscar for best supporting actress. She steals every scene she is in with the amazing Maggie Smith. You can't take your eyes off of her and her portrayal of Sandy is the heart of the movie. I can't take the Academy Awards seriously after that oversight.

    • @Dioxinpie
      @Dioxinpie 9 років тому +21

      Timothy Griffith I agree. Pamela's performance was outstanding

    • @djmotise
      @djmotise 8 років тому +2

      Wrong

    • @markwoldin162
      @markwoldin162 7 років тому +2

      Wow. I didn't see it that way at all. I think I have to go back and watch the whole film. Many people here, you particularly eloquently, are singing Ms. Franklin's praises. I thought, this is why we didn't hear much from Franklin -- it's prosaic and hard. But perhaps I am very wrong.
      I must report back after learning more.

    • @trschaefer
      @trschaefer 7 років тому +5

      Hardly... She is a robot... and automaton... a one note performance. She's no longer even acting. Maggie Smith, in contrast, gives a performance of wide ranging emotion. And her subsequent career only supports the decision of the academy in awarding her the Oscar for this fine performance.

    • @cokeguts8977
      @cokeguts8977 7 років тому +4

      Timothy Griffith The Oscars are often awarded to people who don't deserve it and those that *do* deserve it are overlooked. They make stupid choices sometimes.

  • @jdollinter
    @jdollinter 11 років тому +41

    Celia Johnson (Miss Mackay) was so good in Brief Encounter (1945).

    • @barbikelly9143
      @barbikelly9143 10 років тому

      Really-?? I would never have recognised her!!

    • @jdollinter
      @jdollinter 10 років тому +3

      Yes, she was also an avid reader and was so proficient she did the crossword puzzles with a pen. Apparently she was also blind as a bat and wore lenses that looked like the bottom of a coke bottle. Ha ha. JD

    • @jonathanlinton6522
      @jonathanlinton6522 9 років тому +1

      Barbi Kelly Celia was much marked by age and, in this case, stage makeup by the late sixties

    • @barbikelly9143
      @barbikelly9143 9 років тому +1

      Jonathan Linton
      OK, thanks.

    • @mushmorant9253
      @mushmorant9253 7 років тому

      In anything by Noel Coward. In Which We Serve, This Happy Breed etc.

  • @DEBOJU930
    @DEBOJU930 9 років тому +51

    Bravooooooo, Maggie, you are wonderful.

    • @cokeguts8977
      @cokeguts8977 7 років тому +1

      Elizabeth Ruocco That Pamela Franklin girl was brilliant too

  • @traceythomas3027
    @traceythomas3027 4 роки тому +34

    I have always loved this movie...but I don't understand why everybody is saying that Pamela Franklin steals the scenes. I never once watched this movie to see Pamela..I watched this movie to see Maggie Smith and her interactions with the others.

    • @loge10
      @loge10 3 місяці тому +6

      I would say over the years I have watched the movie repeatedly more for Pamela. A remarkably powerful and insightful performance which is perfect to play against Maggie Smith's theatrical character.

    • @Rozsaphile
      @Rozsaphile Місяць тому

      It's not a matter of "stealing scenes." It's just that Sandy is the character who really evolves in the course of the film. Brodie, in all of Smith's splendid realization, remains stuck in her unfortunate pose.

    • @loge10
      @loge10 Місяць тому

      @@Rozsaphile Well said. I should add in all honesty, though, that I also think Pamela Franklin is sexy.

  • @jmm2511
    @jmm2511 4 роки тому +4

    Two magnificent actresses

  • @t.j.payeur5331
    @t.j.payeur5331 5 років тому +2

    One of the best illustrations of the female dynamic Ever.

  • @GrMattPro
    @GrMattPro 11 років тому +22

    ...magnificent...

  • @danielbarnett1614
    @danielbarnett1614 3 місяці тому +1

    Fantastic! Mesmerizing!

  • @slyslaughter5115
    @slyslaughter5115 3 місяці тому +1

    What a scene between two actresses. What a film.

  • @NancyRoss-y5z
    @NancyRoss-y5z 2 місяці тому +3

    "We were neither of us very interested in his mind."

  • @machovoce6826
    @machovoce6826 7 місяців тому +6

    Smith and Johnson are pitch perfect. Could not find two actresses in the US who could match them today.

  • @rubytuesdayphoenix
    @rubytuesdayphoenix Рік тому +110

    Did anyone else find this scene incredibly cathartic? This is kinda personal, but my grandma was such a toxic narcissist (and yes I know those are two terms that are thrown around too much these days but seriously, the woman absolutely fit both words) that I consider anyone who allowed their children within ten miles of her to be guilty of child abuse. I wish my parents had protected me from her. Anyway, Pamela Franklin in this scene says everything I wish I had said to my grandma. It's amazing how many meanings or life parallels can be gleaned from just one film scene

    • @danawinsor1380
      @danawinsor1380 6 місяців тому +7

      You have a compelling viewpoint. For myself, I was expecting Miss Brodie to slap Sandy across the face.

    • @josephososkie3029
      @josephososkie3029 3 місяці тому +10

      Just when Sandy feels a split second of compassion for Brodie, its like ringing the dinner bell., Brodie is back to feeding. But Sandy sees it.

    • @dennisleporte2327
      @dennisleporte2327 3 місяці тому +8

      I thought that just a minute ago. My father is a narcissist. The character is exhibiting the classic behavior of course back in the day we didn't have a label for it.

    • @kenoliver8913
      @kenoliver8913 3 місяці тому

      There is no doubt that this scene is INTENDED to be cathartic - that is what, in classical drama, is meant to happen in the recognition scene (when the central truths of the plot are revealed and the hero/heroine's illusions are torn away). Recognition scenes are usually also the drama's climax, as this one is.

    • @josephososkie3029
      @josephososkie3029 3 місяці тому +1

      @@rubytuesdayphoenix . What people see as “ cathartic is maybe just the first step. Where do you go from here?

  • @johnwhiting5747
    @johnwhiting5747 6 років тому +6

    Beautiful acting. Maggie Smith is the finest actor we have!

  • @jamesmc1016
    @jamesmc1016 4 місяці тому +1

    Wonderful dialogue and an exquisite perfomance.

  • @JHarder1000
    @JHarder1000 4 роки тому +8

    Some of the greatest acting ever by two females of the species. Incidentally, that was Mr.Hudson, Gordon Jackson, singing "My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose"

    • @SuperWolsey
      @SuperWolsey 6 місяців тому

      That was him?? Christ, he could've done himself a whole one off album had he wanted to

    • @ghound-md5ey
      @ghound-md5ey 5 місяців тому

      He also played the piano in this. Talented man ...

  • @derrionbrown3923
    @derrionbrown3923 2 роки тому +7

    The writing, the acting 🎭🔥🔥🔥🔥

  • @elizabethbowie9753
    @elizabethbowie9753 2 роки тому +1

    I was too young to see this movie at the time. Never saw it. But, I have a dvd of the secret garden, & Maggie Smith's hair, voice, & attitude are Exactly the Same, in both movies, even though, they're decades apart.