For me this film is marred by unlikely politics. Jean Brodie is an enthusiastic fascist. OK. Lots of people liked fascism back in the 1930s. But Miss Brodie persuades one of her students to go to Spain and fight for fascism and Franco. Did that ever happen? The reverse is certainly true. All sorts of intellectuals waxed poetic about the glories of Communism and the Spanish Republic and encouraged young men and women to go to Spain and die fighting for the cause. Many accepted the call -- including George Orwell who came home thoroughly disillusioned. But I'm not aware of any movement to enlist American or British volunteers to fight for fascism and Franco. Thus, the movie would have been truer to its time if Miss Brodie had been a leftist and persuaded her student to fight for the Communists.
Review of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
