Two Loves (1961): Cast & Plot

American Anna Vorontosov, Shirley MacLaine, teaches the younger children, mostly Maori, at a rural school on New Zealand’s North Island. She has made teaching the focus of her life, and her classroom is deliberately disorganized and chaotic because she believes that freedom helps these students learn. One morning she learns from her students that a new superintendent is stopping by the school, and she worries about how to present her unconventional methods in a way that won’t get her fired. She confides in the school’s headmaster, Ronald Long Reardon, asking for a plan. They decide that the best solution is to recruit an older student from another class to help for a few weeks.