YOUNG WINSTON [IMPORT]

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• Release Year: 1972
• Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
• Plot: 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 (All Creatures Great and Small and TV’s “The Tudors”), 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 (well-voiced by Ward, based on Churchill’s own autobiography). In boyhood and adolescence, Churchill’s self-consumed parents, Lord Randolph (Robert Shaw, A Man for All Seasons) and American-born Lady Jennie (Anne Bancroft, The Graduate), 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. Anthony Hopkins, John Mills, Jack Hawkins, Patrick Magee and Ian Holm also appear in supporting roles.
• Cast: Julian Holloway, Edward Woodward, Patrick Magee, Jack Hawkins, Simon Ward, Anne Bancroft, Robert Shaw, John Wilder, John Mills, Sanders Watney, Fred Stroud, Guy Standeven, Byron Sotiris, Tony Snell, Tina Simmons, Bob Raymond, Hugh Morton, John Tatham, George Mikell, Peter Cellier, Dino Shafeek, Reginald Marsh, Robert Flemyng, Clive Morton, Richard Leech, Peter Mann, Ian Holm, Michael Audreson, Ronald Hines, Noel Davis, John Stuart, Robert Hardy, Basil Dignam, William Dexter, Laurence Naismith, Pat Heywood, Russell Lewis, Colin Blakely, Raymond Mason, Roy Lansford, Robert Lankesheer, Pippa Steel, Anthony Hopkins, Norman Rossington, John Woodvine, James Cossins, Maurice Roëves, Andrew Faulds, Robert Harris, James Cosmo, Gerald Sim, Norman Bird, Patrick Holt, Thorley Walters, Ron Pember, Edward Burnham, Raymond Huntley, Jack Armstrong, Juba Kennerley, Pat Judge, Kevin Hudson, Lindsay Hooper, Nigel Hawthorne, Alan Harris, Victor Harrington, Willoughby Gray, Norman Gay, Arnold Diamond, Brenda Cowling, Jeremy Child, Jimmy Charters, Ernest Blyth, Hyma Beckley, Richard Beal, Jack Arrow, Jane Seymour, Dinsdale Landen, Richard Attenborough, Winston Churchill, Carl Foreman
• Director: Richard Attenborough
• Runtime: 2:31
• Company: Columbia Pictures Corporation, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
• Media Format: Movie