The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie

Prime, indeed. In the Edinburgh of 1932, Smith teaches in an upscale private girls' school. She inspires her students with her ideas on art, music, and politics--the latter based on romantic notions that lead her to express admiration for the fascisti in Italy. Smith has assembled a small coterie of adoring students--including Carr, Grayson and Franklin--who follow her around. She even arranges to take them with her on one of her occasional visits to the country home of Jackson, a fellow teacher who is more interested in her than she is in him. Actually, she is romantically involved with Stephens, another teacher and a sometime painter, whose jealousy she ho...