Goodbye, Miss Turlock

Goodbye, Miss Turlock

Goodbye, Miss Turlock

6.4/ 10

TMDB Rating

12

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1948

Release Year

11 min

Runtime

Family

Overview

Narrator John Nesbitt laments the disappearance of the rural one-room schoolhouse in America. He reminisces about his own days as a student in such a school and how his teacher, Miss Turlock, influenced so many students. Many of them reunite at the school on Miss Turlock's last day, when the school was closed in 1940.

Keywords

retirement

rural area

detention

school teacher

americana

spitball

country school

school kids

one room schoolhouse

future leader

short film

Cast

John Nesbitt

John Nesbitt

Narrator (voice)

Nana Bryant

Nana Bryant

Miss Turlock (uncredited)

Norman Ollestad

'Irish' the Spitball Shooter (uncredited)

Fred Fisher

Skinny (uncredited)

Images

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Reviews(1)

6.0avg rating

CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

July 13, 2025

6

6/10

There is something of the “How Green Was My Valley” about this engaging little retrospective from a narrator who recalls his childhood in a one-room school built in 1902. He can’t recall everyone’s name from the time, but that doesn’t really matter as we see kids of different ages play merrily in th…

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