These Three
First screened in February 2000 / Most recently screened in February 2013
Director: William Wyler. Cast: Merle Oberon, Miriam Hopkins, Joel McCrea, Bonita Granville, Marcia Mae Jones, Catherine Doucet, Alma Kruger, Carmencita Johnson, Mary Anne Durkin, Walter Brennan, Margaret Hamilton, Mary Louise Cooper. Screenplay: Lillian Hellman (based on her play The Children's Hour). Twitter Capsule:
Critiqued for evading some Hellman themes, but female friendship is warmly evoked. Unusually intense child performers.
VOR:④
Weirdly hard to see. Obviously hedges on some degree of risk by censoring the same-sex desire in the play, but at narrative and technical levels it's still unusual.
