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This first film version of "The Children's Hour" uses a heterosexual triangle rather than the play's lesbian theme. The plot concerns schoolteachers Karen Wright and Martha Dobie, both of whom are in love with Dr. Joe Cardin. The malicious lie of one of their students involves all three in a scandal which disrupts all their lives.... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in These Three:

Miriam Hopkins
Merle Oberon
Joel McCrea
Catherine Doucet
Alma Kruger
Bonita Granville

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This first film version of "The Children's Hour" uses a heterosexual triangle rather than the play's lesbian theme. The plot concerns schoolteachers Karen Wright and Martha Dobie, both of whom are in love with Dr. Joe Cardin. The malicious lie of one of their students involves all three in a scandal which disrupts all their lives.

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Nick's Flick Picks - 9/10 by Nick DavisOverheated but well-acted adaptation of Lillian Hellman's play The Children's Hour.
EmanuelLevy.Com - 6/10 by Emanuel LevyDespite limitations imposed by the Production Code (lesbianism!), this first version of Hellman's play is more powerful than the 1961 remake, also directed by William Wyler.
User Review - 10/10 by Katie RWhile the remake is apparently closer to the original play, this one is less "flashy" in its risqueness and expresses the real point of the story much better.
User Review - 8/10 by Ice REffective (even though it's not the original) story about the fragility of reputation. The end is a little unearned, but Hellman's exploration of one's inability to return to normalcy and the insidiousness of lies is quite well done.
User Review - 8/10 by Mariah Atoned down but still exceptional version of thew lillian hellman story. well cast, and one of both miriam hopkins and merle oberon's best performances and films. well written, expertly handled by william wyler. a great classic.
User Review - 8/10 by Nikolai EWhile I watched this, I toyed with mentally re-inserting the lesbian angle that I knew had been excised by studio rules, but the film finds a way to work quite well without it, and although the ending is much less grim than the original play's, it neatly avoids feeling shallow and tacked-on. I can't say if they would have been better off sticking to the theatrical script, but the film is more about the overall destructive power of social stigma, rather than any particular target of scorn. A particularly well-acted and well-made film for its time, it's intelligently constructed with very natural performances all around. The detail of the plotting is commendable; Whereas a lesser film might have simply rushed straight to the melodrama, here every action is carefully set-up and justified so that nothing seems left to chance. It's a bit of a downer, since the film basically just endears us to three likable people and then sets out to completely destroy them, but check it out if you can get it.
User Review - 8/10 by Darryl Cthis is the 1936 version of hellman's first b'way success 'the children's hour'. it is done sans the lesbian plot element and it is still quite effective. hopkins is surprisingly subtle and understated and oberon holds her own despite a lacquered diction that seems out of place in the film. joel mccrea is one of the most american of american leading men and he's solid interacting with both actresses. special mention must be given to catherine doucet as the bitchy aunt, marcia mae jones as vulnerable rosalie and the formidable bonita granville as venomous mary tilford.
User Review - 8/10 by Sylvester ENot hard to see why this was one of the few films that Graham Greene actually liked. Brilliant work from the cast especially Bonita Granville who is just the most perfectly evil child villain.
User Review - 6/10 by Richard DHere's a sterling example of how utterly misconceived the Hays Code was. William Wyler adapts Lillian Hellman's play "The Children's Hour", but the alleged lesbian relationship central to the plot of the play has to be replaced by a heterosexual love triangle between Joel McRea, Miriam Hopkins and Merle Oberon. Even with this substitution, the film can't come right out and say what the allegations are. The dialogue pussyfoots around it forcing anyone watching to work pretty hard to figure out exactly what the child is accusing them of. There's the absurdity of it all ... anyone watching the film has to get a pretty clear mental image of what has supposed to have happened in order to have any hope of following the plot, so what is the point of not letting them say it? Nobody is sheltered from anything. The film is just compromised. Anyway, here's a great cast and a great director struggling to make a watchable film out of neutered material. They almost succeed.
User Review - 6/10 by Greg WWyler directed this version and also the re-make 'the children's hour" one of the few directors allowed 2 do a do-over like Hitchcock, DeMille and Mia Farrow's dad, john farrow.

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