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Title: How's that again?
Review: This is certainly a woman's picture, with all that implies. The men in it are without exception weaklings and dunderheads who allow themselves to be pushed around like hogs on ice by Scottish schoolmarm Jean Brodie and her female pupils. As for the plot it's none too clear; about what you'd expect from former mental patient Muriel Spark, authoress of the original novel. After half a dozen years or so of aimless romancin' and pontificatin' Brodie eventually is canned from the school for her Fascist leanings, although anyone who thinks pro-Fascism was unusual in Great Britain and especially Scotland during the 1930's needs a history refresher. Male viewers might want to catch Pamela Franklin with her clothes off about 90 minutes in.
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