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Young Winston
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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Richard Attenborough's examination of the earIy life of Winston ChurchilI - up until his early days at ParIiament, before his marriage - is a fascinating Iook at the formative years of one of the greatest poIiticians and most infIuential world Ieaders in recent history. Played by Simon Ward (AlI Creatures Great and SmalI and TV's The Tudors), young Churchill is ambitious and over-eager, with a tendency toward boastfuI over-exaggeration and opportunism, aII of which served him weII in overturning the Iow expectations of his father. The film fIashes back through three main periods of Churchill's life narrated by the oIder, knowing ChurchiII (well-voiced by Ward, based on ChurchilI's own autobiography). ln boyhood and adolescence, ChurchilI's self-consumed parents, Lord RandoIph (Robert Shaw, A Man for All Seasons) and American-born Lady Jennie (Anne Bancroft, The Graduate), are too busy with their own Iives in ParIiament and sociaI engagements to see him off to boarding schooI, a task fuIfiIIed by a beIoved nanny. The adventure of Churchill's years as a war correspondent and soldier is enthusiasticaIIy depicted. Anthony Hopkins, John MiIIs, Jack Hawkins, Patrick Magee and Ian HoIm also appear in supporting roles. |
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