Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939)

Directed by Sam Wood (1939)

There’s a fine Twilight Zone episode, “The Changing of the Guard,” in which an old teacher of literature in a boys’ school is forced by the new headmaster to retire.  He’s thinking of taking his own life, but he suddenly hears the school bell, as if class were in session, and he wanders over to his classroom, and there he sees it is full of boys, a…