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So busy with her children... She didn't have time to get married!
American-born Anna Vorontosov teaches school in a remote, primitive section of northern New Zealand. Her experimental teaching methods have won her the love and affection of her pupils and their parents and the admiration of the unhappily married school inspector, Abercrombie. Her personal life, however, is less secure; frightened of love and sexually inhibited, she has always been aloof with men. Eager to break down this barrier is Englishman Paul Lathrope, a somewhat irrational and immature fellow teacher who aspires to be a singer. Though Anna is attracted to him, she refuses to submit to his advances.Read moreLess
American-born Anna Vorontosov teaches school in a remote, primitive section of northern New Zealand. Her experimental teaching methods have won her the love and affection of her pupils and their parents and the admiration of the unhappily married school inspector, Abercrombie. Her personal life, however, is less secure; frightened of love and sexually inhibited, she has always been aloof with men. Eager to break down this barrier is Englishman Paul Lathrope, a somewhat irrational and immature fellow teacher who aspires to be a singer. Though Anna is attracted to him, she refuses to submit to his advances.
The story
American-born Anna Vorontosov teaches school in a remote, primitive section of northern New Zealand. Her experimental teaching methods have won her the love and affection of her pupils and their parents and the admiration of the unhappily married school inspector, Abercrombie. Her personal life, however, is less secure; frightened of love and sexually inhibited, she has always been aloof with men. Eager to break down this barrier is Englishman Paul Lathrope, a somewhat irrational and immature fellow teacher who aspires to be a singer. Though Anna is attracted to him, she refuses to submit to his advances.
Cast & crew
Shirley MacLaineAnna Vorontosov
Laurence HarveyPaul Lathrope
Jack HawkinsWilliam W.J. Abercrombie
Nobu McCarthyWhareparita
Ronald LongHeadmaster Reardon
Norah HowardMrs. Cutter
Juano HernándezChief Rauhuia
Edmund VargasMatawhero (uncredited)Explore the crew
- Original Music Composer
- Bronislau Kaper
- Editor
- Fredric Steinkamp
- Director
- Charles Walters
- Screenplay
- Ben Maddow
- Producer
- Julian Blaustein
- Director of Photography
- Joseph Ruttenberg