When MGM came to Sherborne
Richard Pilcher’s personal memories of the summer of 1968, when the American film giant, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, spent seven weeks in Sherborne filming Goodbye, Mr Chips
Published in February ’22
The director, Herbert Ross (on the left, with glasses), behind the camera with the film crew in the Sherborne School courts
I WAS a thirteen-year-old schoolboy at Sherborne School when word came round of an offer to be a film extra during the summer holidays. Arrangements for my flight home to Bückeburg, West Germany, and the British Army of the Rhine were put on hold. The film of James Hilton’s classic novella, Goodbye, Mr Chips, was being made at Sherborne in the shadow of the much-lauded 1939 …
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