Movie Review: The Childrens Hour

Last week I saw a great movie in which Audrey Hepburn and Shirley Mcclaine portrayed the main characters. This movie is from the year 1961. This movie created controversy when it came out, but still got nominated for 5 oscars, winnin none. The movie is about two friends (Hepburn and Mcclaine) who own a boarding school of young girls. One of them is a very naughty and evil, which hated the 2 teachers. She listened to Mcclaine discussing with her aunt (which saud that her relationship with Hepburn was unnatural), and because the girl wanted to go out of school she told her grandma lies which led her to believe that they were romantically involved. All of the parents noticed and started to take their daughters out and after they found out who invented the rumor they went to demand the grandma to rectify what she said, but, the girl with the help of a friend of her (who was blackmailed by the little girl) lied too and ended with the hopes of the teachers. Hepburn was going to be married and because of all the rumors, they cancelled the marriage. Both deciding to leave, the grandma found out about the lie and wet to apologize to them, but it was too late. Mcclaine character was so confused about her feelings that she didnt know anymore if she really loved Hepburn and because of this she killed herself. Hepburn gave a funeral and all the people that they knew and formed part of the rumor where there, Hepburn turning their back on them and going away.
After I saw this movie, I was in shocked but still no surprised that it didnt win any awards. Well the reason was because of the subject the movie portraid. During that time people and audiences were very conservative and this film was quite the opposite. All the actors in the movie were amazing, the black and white effect made it more scary and phycologycal like and the topic, which was ignored by most, was well written and developed. This movie is definitley a most see.