Watch: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie 1969 123movies, Full Movie Online – A liberated young schoolteacher at an Edinburgh girls’ school in the period between the two world wars, instructs her girls on the ways of life. Ignoring the more mundane subjects, she teaches them of love, politics and art. Her affairs with two male teachers become known and she finds herself fighting to keep her job. She believes that she can always count on the one hundred percent support of her favorite pupils, but one of them does not feel that Miss Jean Brodie (Dame Maggie Smith) is in her “prime” anymore. No longer swayed by her teacher’s eloquence, she begins to learn about life and love herself..
Plot: A headstrong young teacher in a private school in 1930s Edinburgh ignores the curriculum and influences her impressionable 12 year old charges with her over-romanticized world view.
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Not just a one-woman show
This movie is often billed as a ‘one-woman show’, a study of an extraordinary character, Miss Jean Brodie, played by an excellent actress. However, the movie is much more than that. It is a study of charisma and influence, of teachers and students, and presents a complex and fascinating coming-of-age story. This study takes place through the movie’s double-focus on both Jean Brodie and her most precocious student, Sandy. Sandy is the strongest and most independent of Miss Brodie’s students, and eventually she rebels and rejects her teaching completely. However, she is also truest to her teacher’s expressed goals. Miss Brodie supposedly wants to teach ‘her girls’ to be like herself: powerful, independent individuals, free from the shackles of authority and group-think, beyond conventional sexual morality. In fact, she preys on the weakness and insecurity of her students, punishes independence and rewards slavish loyalty to her and to her personal plans and ideals. (The film’s more subtle concern with fascism and authoritarianism echoes this theme: fascism elevates great individuals and praises their strength, just as it demands total obedience and slavishness from the rest.) Sandy, by recognizing and rejecting Miss Brodies’s actions and plans, becomes her truest student: not only sexually adventurous, but bold, independent, and confrontational. The final scenes illustrate this beautifully. Miss Brodie has truly put “an old head” on Sandy’s “young shoulders”, and she truly is “hers for life”–though not in the way originally intended. In this way the movie presents a profound, sophisticated and realistic account of the way powerful individuals influence one another.
Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 56 min (116 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated M/PG
Genre Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director Ronald Neame
Writer Muriel Spark, Jay Presson Allen
Actors Maggie Smith, Gordon Jackson, Robert Stephens
Country United Kingdom
Awards Won 1 Oscar. 6 wins & 10 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A
Sound Mix Mono (Westrex Recording System)
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory DeLuxe (color by) (as De Luxe)
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm