The Chalk Garden
A girl on the verge of womanhood... a woman on the edge of loneliness... both suspicious of affection, yet starved for love.
19641h 45mNo ratings yet
- Drama
- Mystery
Overview
The peculiar antics of Laurel, an emotionally troubled young girl, are the focus of The Chalk Garden – a stately household drama set on the cliffs of the English south coast. Edith Evans plays a matriarchal grandmother who, in raising her granddaughter, has neglected her other love – a barren chalk garden. Mayhem ensues as Laurel's behavior frightens away a succession of governesses until an enigmatic one is hired in spite of her mysterious references. She skillfully sets about tending to the girl's reckless emotions and the pitifully failed garden.
Keywords
- family relationships
- haunted by the past
- adolescence
- dramatic
- grandparent grandchild relationship
- judge
- estranged mother
- governess
- gardening
- problem child
- dover
- absent mother
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- April 2, 1964
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United Kingdom, United States of America
- Production
- Universal Pictures,Ross Hunter Productions
- Cast
- Deborah Kerr,Hayley Mills,John Mills,Edith Evans,Felix Aylmer,Elizabeth Sellars,Lally Bowers,Toke Townley,Tonie MacMillan
- Director
- Ronald Neame
- Producer
- Ross Hunter
- Cinematography
- Arthur Ibbetson
- Music
- Malcolm Arnold
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
- tt0057933