Young Winston

1972

Action / Biography / Drama / War

5
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 55% · 11 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 51% · 250 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.7/10 10 3178 3.2K

parliament election british politics turn of the century 19th century boer war

Plot summary

This historical drama is an account of the early life of British politician Winston Churchill, including his childhood years, his time as a war correspondent in Africa, and culminating with his first election to Parliament.

Director

Richard Attenborough Photo
Richard Attenborough

Top cast

Anthony Hopkins Photo
Anthony Hopkins as Lloyd George
Robert Shaw Photo
Robert Shaw as Lord Randolph Churchill
Jane Seymour Photo
Jane Seymour as Pamela Plowden
Laurence Naismith Photo
Laurence Naismith as Lord Salisbury
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1.38 GB
1280*544
English 2.0
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23.976 fps
2 hr 33 min
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2.55 GB
1920*816
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
2 hr 33 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by ma-cortes 6 / 10

It's a good adaptation about Churchill's autobiography during his childhood and youth

The picture is based on Winston Churchill's autobiographic book titled : ¨My early life : a roving commission¨ . The movie talks about infancy , the school times in a strict discipline , the young military and journalist career and the election as parliamentary at the early age twenty six years old . He intervened against the rebels in India , at defense of the British Empire . Winston participated in the last charge of Brit brigade in Sudan war along with general Kitchener (John Mills) in command the Army against Derviches that had formerly vanquished general Gordon (1884 , Khartoum, events narrated in the film with the same title with Charlton Heston). Later on , he was to South Africa as journalist in English-Boer war (1899-1902 , the leaders were Rhodes-Kruger respectively) that Kitchener would finish (though there he would create the first concentration camp) . Churchill is imprisoned but he breaks out from Pretoria . After the spectacular getaway which obtained world fame he was elected as Parliament member where he speaks an overlong speech that makes it a little bit boring . He subsequently becomes Tory (or Conservative) Party leader confronting Prime Minister Salisbury (Laurence Naismith) and later on , facing LLoyd George (Anthony Hopkins) , Liberal Party leader . The film won several Oscar nominations or Academy Awards , to original screenplay (Carl Foreman), Production design (Geoffrey Drake) and Costume (Anthony Mendleson) but achieve none . Simon Ward is enormous and Anne Bancroft , Robert Shaw and Anthony Hopkins are magnificent . This was the first of five films that Richard Attenborough and Anthony Hopkins worked together on . They later worked together on Magic (1978), A bridge too far (1977), Chaplin (1992), and Shadowlands (1993). Very good support cast , actors Ian Holm, John Mills, Jack Hawkins , Patrick Magee, Anthony Hopkins and Edward Woodward all received 'special appearance' credits and debut theatrical feature film of actor Nigel Hawthorne . The sensitive and romantic music score was masterfully composed by Alfred Ralston . The motion picture was well directed by Richard Attemborough .
Reviewed by bwburton 7 / 10

British version contains a terrific final scene missing from USA version.

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