THE CHALK GARDEN - BD

(Ronald Neame, 1964, 107 mins)
Release date: 23 June 2025
Standard Edition Blu-ray

Ronald Neame (The Odessa File) directs this stately adaptation of Enid Bagnold’s play which tells of a haughty matriarch (Edith Evans, The Whisperers) who employs a governess (Deborah Kerr, The Innocents) with a shadowy past to take care of her troubled teenage granddaughter (Hayley Mills, Take a Girl Like You, Endless Night), and her neglected garden. John Mills (Town on Trial, The Wrong Box) plays the butler who develops a soft spot for the governess, and navigates the fraught interpersonal relationships of the house. A hit with audiences upon its original release, The Chalk Garden benefits from a nuanced screenplay by the great John Michael Hayes (Rear Window) and tasteful photography by Arthur Ibbetson (Where Eagles Dare, Fanatic).

INDICATOR STANDARD EDITION SPECIAL FEATURES

• High Definition remaster
  
• Original mono soundtrack
  
• Audio commentary with film historians Lucy Bolton and Josephine Botting (2021)
  
• The BEHP Interview with Ronald Neame (1991, 107 mins): archival audio recording, made as part of the British Entertainment History Project, featuring the acclaimed director in conversation with Roy Fowler
  
• Fertile Ground (2021, 8 mins): assistant production accountant Maurice Landsberger remembers filming at Eastbourne
  
• 8mm Location Footage (1963, 1 min): excerpts from John Mills’ home movies shot at Beachy Head during production
  
• Clever Conversation (2021, 22 mins): appreciation of Malcolm Arnold’s score by author and musician David Huckvale
  
• Loved and Envied (2021, 11 mins): Josephine Botting on the life and career of Enid Bagnold
  
• Original theatrical trailer
  
• Image gallery: promotional and publicity material
  
• New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing

#PHISE180B
BBFC cert: PG
REGION B
EAN: 5060697924923