Children's Hour

Pros: Audrey Hepburn is cute
Cons: Overwrought, overstressed, unbelievable

The Children's Hour (1961) Despite the provocative subject matter, I found The Children's Hour a flawed movie with some individual good scenes but a general tendency to excessive emotion and not only scenery chewing but blatant hammy ...

Pros: amazing cast, adult material without raunch
Cons: children's acting is better than most, but still children

Though I've heard of people being put out of churches for sins of sexual promiscuity. I have never heard (though I'm sure it has happened) that people have been put out of churches for the sin of gossip. Whether one is more sinful than the other, I don't...

Pros: Dead on Accurate portrayal of the experiences of people you know
Cons: Heavy, heavy Drama, but then life isn't all action-comedy.

Most of the reviews you read today about the 1961 classic The Children's Hour tell you that this movie is tame by today's standards on the issue of lesbianism, given the fact that the word "lesbian" is never dared spoken throughout the...

Pros: Powerful story, brilliant acting by Shirley Maclaine
Cons: Karen Balkin doesn't live up to Bonita Granville's work in the original

In in 1936, William Wyler made a movie called These Three. Based on a play by Lillian Hellman, it dealt with two school teachers whose lives are destroyed by the lies of a child. Because of the censors, he couldn't deal with the real lie, which was...

Pros: good sense of suspense, not overdramatic
Cons: not suitable for children under 13 at the youngest

Karen (Audrey Hepburn) and Martha (Shirley MacLaine) run a school for girls. Just as their problems begin to completely subside a problem arises.

When it becomes necessary to discipline a particular girl, the child turns to her grandmother,...