On a boat trip on the river Alice tells her mother that Dodgson loves her. The mother starts having doubts about Dodgson's relationship with her daughter.
Dodgson speaks strongly against 'vice and immorality' the same way congressmen who speak strongly against gays and are caught have relations with them
The dean is played by the same plan who played Richard Bellamy on Upstairs, Downstairs. Alice is one of his daughters in the film.
There are times in the film when Dodgson seems to be rather mentally unbalanced, and not just his thoughts about Alice. He seems to oppose any kind of change at all at the school, and will suddenly just go off on someone who says something that upsets him.
The dean's wife starts to talk to him about Dodgson, but the dean gets going saying dodgson is twenty years outdated on his prejudices and that he wants nothing changed at Oxford. She hands him a bunch of letters Dodgson wrote to Alice; and then she burns them.
You can see through the film how he came up with bits and pieces that later became the story Alice in Wonderland.
Dodgson sends a letter to the dean and his wife telling them about the book he wrote about Alice. The mother is concerned that other members of the family might be characters in the book also.
The wife later says Dodgson needs to see less of Alice. She says she thinks Dodgson is thinking of marrying Alice when she grows up.
Dodgson gives her Alice a copy of the book. The dean seems to be starting to be suspicious of Dodgson's intentions regarding Alice.
Then the film ends with Alice more grown up and grown away from the girl she had been.
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