Big Screen: Great Night at Sofa Cinema

I just spent $3.99 on Xfinity to rent “The Children’s Hour,” the black & white classic from 1961.

It stars beautiful young starlets Audrey Hepburn and Shirley MacLane (as Karen Wright and Martha Dobie, teachers running the Wright-Dobie School, a girls’ boarding school in a refurbished farmhouse) and James Garner as Karen’s doctor boyfriend. It’s based on the play by Lillian Hellman and she adapted it for the screen.

I have read the play and have watched the movie a couple of times.

A. I love Audrey Hepburn--her style, poise, grace, precision--and her bangs.

B. I love movies set in the 1960s.

C. It is about the way a child can twist the truth, and hurt adults in the process. (I am no stranger to that, let’s say.)

It’s not light popcorn fare. 

But I love this movie anyway.

Fair warning: The play was written in 1934 (87 years ago) and its premise is archaic.

Just finished a bowl of raspberries and blueberries with a scattering of walnuts and a pour of organic cream, and enjoyed it.

Good night.