The film version of Our Miss Brooks is likely to be best appreciated by those who have been exposed to the TV series (or possibly the radio series) from which it is drawn, although devotees may be thrown a bit by the movie's rewriting history a little bit by having Miss Brooks a brand new teacher at good old Madison High. Those who aren't already familiar with the property from an earlier incarnation may find it a bit tame, for the goings-on are overly familiar from decades of television sitcoms. However, Brooks the film has the same marvelous weapon that Brooks the TV and radio series had, namely the incomparable tongue of Eve Arden. Oh, there's more to the actress than her tongue, of course. There's her eyebrows for a start, which can make sum up an assessment of another character with one quick arch. There's the mouth, which can convey sunshiny warmth one second and steely determination the next. And there's the hands, that can turn a flutter of warning into a gesture of fatalism in no time flat. But it's the tongue, and the way it makes a seemingly innocent sentence riotously funny that counts for the most. No one could handle a laugh line like Arden, especially a sardonic one, and few people could take a "you call that a laugh line?" line and wring chuckles from it like Arden either. Her material here is standard issue, pleasant but little else, but she makes it work, ably supported by the very likeable Richard Crenna, the ready-to-burn Gale Gordon and the handsome but clueless Robert Rockwell.