The read
Critics rate it 26 points higher than audiences do. Scores higher than 80% of the 353 1930s drama movies in this catalog.
Synopsis
Close friends Martha and Karen build a private boarding school together with the aid of the local doctor Joe. The school takes off and many students enroll, one of whom is a trouble-maker who tells a scandalous lie that threatens to destroy the trio's lives.
Ratings
IMDb7.4/10
Rotten Tomatoes100%
Critics rate it 26 points higher than audiences do.
47 audience votes
Key crew
- Lillian HellmanScreenplay
- William WylerDirector
- Alfred NewmanOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Miriam HopkinsMartha Dobie
- Merle OberonKaren Wright
- Joel McCreaDr. Joseph 'Joe' Cardin
- Catherine DoucetLily Mortar
- Alma KrugerAmelia Tilford
- Bonita GranvilleMary Tilford
- Marcia Mae JonesRosalie Wells
- Carmencita JohnsonEvelyn
- Mary Anne DurkinJoyce Walton
- Margaret HamiltonAgatha
- Walter BrennanTaxi Driver
- Joan BarclaySchoolgirl (uncredited)
Stills
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Themes
blackmailliescandalspoiled childteacherschoolschoolgirl