Young Winston

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1972 film directed by Richard Attenborough

Young Winston
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Richard Attenborough
Produced by	Carl Foreman
Written by	Carl Foreman
Starring	Simon Ward Robert Shaw Anne Bancroft Anthony Hopkins John Mills
Music by	Alfred Ralston (includes original music and his arrangements of works by Edward Elgar)[1]
Cinematography	Gerry Turpin
Edited by	Kevin Connor
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release date	28 July 1972 (UK) 10 October 1972 (USA)
Running time	157 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Box office	$2,150,000 (US/ Canada rentals)[2]

Young Winston is a 1972 British film covering the early years of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, based in particular on his book, My Early Life: A Roving Commission. The first part of the film covers Churchill's unhappy schooldays, up to the death of his father. The second half covers his service as a cavalry officer in India and the Sudan, during which he takes part in the cavalry charge at Omdurman, his experiences as a war correspondent in the Second Boer War, during which he is captured and escapes, and his election to Parliament at the age of 26.

Churchill was played by Simon Ward, who was relatively unknown at the time but was supported by a distinguished cast including Robert Shaw (as Lord Randolph Churchill), John Mills (as Lord Kitchener), Anthony Hopkins (as David Lloyd George) and Anne Bancroft as Churchill's mother Jennie. Other actors included Patrick Magee, Robert Hardy, Ian Holm, Edward Woodward and Jack Hawkins.

The film was written and produced by Carl Foreman and directed by Richard Attenborough. It was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Screenplay, Best Art Direction (Donald M. Ashton, Geoffrey Drake, John Graysmark, William Hutchinson, Peter James) and Best Costume Design.^[3]

Contents

• 1Cast
• 2Production
• 3Release on VHS and DVD
• 4References
• 5Further reading
• 6External links

Cast[edit]

• Robert Shaw as Lord Randolph Churchill
• Anne Bancroft as Lady Randolph Churchill
• Simon Ward as Winston Churchill
• Jack Hawkins as James Welldon
• Ian Holm as George Earle Buckle
• Anthony Hopkins as David Lloyd George
• Patrick Magee as General Sir Bindon Blood
• Edward Woodward as Captain Aylmer Haldane
• John Mills as Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener
• Peter Cellier as Captain 35th Sikhs
• Ronald Hines as Adjutant 35th Sikhs
• Pat Heywood as Elizabeth Ann Everest
• Laurence Naismith as Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury
• Basil Dignam as Joseph Chamberlain
• Jeremy Child as Austen Chamberlain
• Robert Hardy as Headmaster
• Pippa Steel as Clementine Hozier

Production[edit]

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Carl Foreman was invited to meet Winston Churchill after he had seen and enjoyed Foreman's 1961 production of The Guns of Navarone. At their meeting Churchill suggested that his book My Early Life would make an excellent film.^[4]

Foreman was impressed by Richard Attenborough's Oh! What a Lovely War and at first wanted him to both direct and play Lord Randolph Churchill; Attenborough declined the latter offer.^{[citation needed]}

The film was made in Morocco and the United Kingdom, with several scenes shot at Penwyllt and Coelbren, Powys, on the edge of the Brecon Beacons, and the scene where Churchill learnt to ride at the Cavalry Riding School building at Beaumont Barracks in Aldershot.^{[citation needed]}

Release on VHS and DVD[edit]

As of July 2009, the longest edition available on DVD is Young Winston: Special Edition at 146 minutes, cut from the original U.S. theatrical release which was 157 minutes. VHS tapes cut the film to just 124 minutes. The fully unabridged version is currently unavailable on DVD.

References[edit]

1. ^ IMDb credits
2. ^ "Big Rental Films of 1973", Variety, 9 January 1974 p 19
3. ^ "NY Times: Young Winston". NY Times. Retrieved 2008-12-28.
4. ^ Young Winston promotional booklet

Further reading[edit]

• Lough, David (2015). No More Champagne: Churchill and His Money. New York: Picador. ISBN 978-1-78408-181-2.

External links[edit]

• Young Winston on IMDb
• Young Winston at Rotten Tomatoes

hide v t e Richard Attenborough
Films directed	Oh! What a Lovely War (1969) Young Winston (1972) A Bridge Too Far (1977) Magic (1978) Gandhi (1982) A Chorus Line (1985) Cry Freedom (1987) Chaplin (1992) Shadowlands (1993) In Love and War (1996) Grey Owl (1999) Closing the Ring (2007)
Family	Sheila Sim (wife) Michael Attenborough (son) Frederick Attenborough (father) David Attenborough (brother) John Attenborough (brother)

show v t e Winston Churchill
Bibliography
Life	Winston Churchill as historian Winston Churchill as painter Winston Churchill in politics, 1900–1939 Timeline War Rooms conferences Percentages agreement Quebec Agreement Declaration on Atrocities European Advisory Commission Honours of Winston Churchill Later life of Winston Churchill funeral gravesite The Other Club Blenheim Palace Chartwell
Writings	The Story of the Malakand Field Force(1898) Savrola(1899 novel) The River War(1899) London to Ladysmith via Pretoria(1900) Ian Hamilton's March(1900) Lord Randolph Churchill(1906) The World Crisis(1923–1931, five volumes) My Early Life(1930) Marlborough: His Life and Times(1933–1938, four volumes) Great Contemporaries(1937) Arms and the Covenant(1938) The Second World War(1948–1963, six volumes) A History of the English-Speaking Peoples(1956–1958, four volumes)
Speeches	"Blood, toil, tears, and sweat" "Be ye men of valour" "We shall fight on the beaches" "This was their finest hour" "Never was so much owed by so many to so few" "Iron Curtain"
Legacy and depictions	Palace of Westminster statue Parliament Square statue Washington, DC, statue Epstein bust Memorial Trusts Churchill College, Cambridge Churchill Archives Centre The Churchill Centre US Churchill Museum Cultural depictions Churchillian Drift
Related	Norway Debate Terminological inexactitude Siege of Sidney Street Tonypandy riots May 1940 War Cabinet Crisis Sword of Stalingrad Operation Unthinkable
Family	Clementine Churchill, Baroness Spencer-Churchill(wife) Diana Churchill(daughter) Randolph Churchill(son) Sarah Churchill(daughter) Marigold Churchill(daughter) Mary Soames, Baroness Soames(daughter) Lord Randolph Churchill(father) Jennie Jerome, Lady Randolph Churchill(mother) Jack Churchill(brother) Descendants John Spencer-Churchill(grandfather) Frances Anne Spencer-Churchill(grandmother) Leonard Jerome(grandfather) Winston Churchill(grandson)

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