The Browning Version (1951 Anthony Asquith)

Should really be called 'the Crocker-Harris Version' as that's the translation of Aeschylus' Agamemnon that we're interested in. Terence Rattigan adapted his shorter 1948 play and the screenplay and Michael Redgrave both won awards at Cannes.

Jean Kent is the vicious wife, Nigel Patrick the sympathetic teacher, Wilfred Hyde White plays the headmaster, Brian Smith the boy and Bill Travers the sporty teacher.

Shot by Desmond Dickinson.

Rattigan wrote one of my favourite WW2 films, The Way to the Stars, then Brighton Rock, The Winslow Boy, David Lean's The Sound Barrier, The Deep Blue Sea, The Prince and the Showgirl, Separate Tables, The VIPs and The Yellow Rolls Royce.