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Based on both the 1961 novel by Muriel Spark, and Jay Presson Allen's subsequent 1966 London stage adaptation, Ronald Neame's film version of The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie (written by Allen) gets a Royal premiere in London. Set in the early 1930s at a girls boarding school in Edinburgh, Scotland, Maggie Smith delivers an Oscar-winning acting masterclass as the titular Jean Brodie, a charismatic, iconoclastic history teacher who takes it upon herself to inculcate in her impressionable "creme de la creme" group of 12 year old students a radically provocative approach to life and love that is the antithesis of the school's archly conservative policies. Robert Stevens, Pamela Franklin and Gordon Jackson co-star, with music by Rod McKuen
