Young Winston PG
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DVD-R Details
- Rated: PG
- Run Time: 2 hours, 31 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: August 2, 2011
- Originally Released: 1972
- Label: Sony Pictures Home
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Simon Ward, Anne Bancroft & Robert Shaw | |
Performer: | Anthony Hopkins, John Mills, Jack Hawkins, Patrick Magee, Edward Woodward, Jane Seymour & Ian Holm | |
Directed by | Richard Attenborough | |
Screenplay by | Carl Foreman | |
Subject: | Winston Churchill | |
Produced by | Carl Foreman | |
Director of Photography: | Gerry Turpin |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: C+ --
Richard (Gandhi) Attenborough made his feature directorial debut with this mildly interesting episodic chronicle of the young Winston Churchill, played by three actors
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EmanuelLevy.Com
In the title role, 31-year-old Simon Ward makes as auspicious a debut in his first major performance as Peter O'Toole did in Lawrence Of Arabia,
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Maclean's Magazine
Robert Shaw and Anne Bancroft, as Lord and Lady Randolph Churchill, are such interesting actors that they could have wrecked the film had it been better: you wish it were about them, not him.
New York Times
It's a betrayal of the sharp principles of Oh! What a Lovely War.
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Film4
Since Young Winston attempts to be a kind of vest-pocket spectacle, there are also a couple of the battles in which he fought (a set-to in the Sudan, a Boer skirmish). Attenborough stages them with all the fury of a grade school recess.
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TIME Magazine
Rating: 2.5/4 --
It is dignified, occasionally exciting, filled with lots of walk-ons so eminent British actors can play eminent British statesmen, and more or less faithful to the facts. But it's nothing more than that.
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Chicago Sun-Times
John Mills, Edward Woodward, Patrick Magee, Robert Hardy, Anthony, Hopkins and a string of well-known names in small parts keep the standard of acting agreeably high.
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The Spectator
Description by OLDIES.com:
Richard Attenborough's examination of the early life of Winston Churchill -- up until his early days at Parliament, before his marriage - is a fascinating look at the formative years of one of the greatest politicians and most influential world leaders in recent history. Played by Simon Ward, young Churchill is ambitious and over-eager, with a tendency toward boastful over-exaggeration and opportunism, all of which served him well in overturning the low expectations of his father. The film flashes back through three main periods of Churchill's life narrated by the older, knowing Churchill. In boyhood and adolescence, Churchill's self-consumed parents, Lord Randolph (Robert Shaw) and American-born Lady Jennie (Anne Bancroft), are too busy with their own lives in Parliament and social engagements to see him off to boarding school, a task fulfilled by a beloved nanny. The adventure of Churchill's years as a war correspondent and soldier is enthusiastically depicted. Newly remastered.
Product Description:
This stunning film production outlines the early life and career of one of recent history's most famous personages, Sir Winston Churchill. Based on Churchill's own biography, "My Early Life; A Roving Commission." Academy Award Nominations: 3, including Best (Original) Story and Screenplay.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 36,982
- UPC: 043396386006
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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