Graham Weir is a middle-aged schoolmaster. Shirley Taylor is his adoring 16-year-old pupil. She offers herself, he gently rejects her and she retaliates with a charge of indecent assault. Acting legend Laurence Olivier and film-debuting Sarah Miles portray teacher and student in Term of Trial, Peter (Becket) Glenvilleâs provocative film notable in its time for its frank sexual themeâ¦and notable in ours for Olivierâs authoritative portrait of an unauthoritative man, one too good â or too fearful â to misuse another human being. Simone Signoret, like Olivier an Academy Award® winner, plays Weirâs restless wife, whose disdain for her husband leads to a stunning denouement. Three lives. One fateful lie.
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