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Name: Young Winston
Released: 1972-10-10
Cast: Anne Bancroft, Simon Ward, Robert Shaw, Jane Seymour, Anthony Hopkins

Young Winston

PG
2h 25m
1972

55%

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Winston Churchill was one of the titanic statesmen of the 20th century, as well as a talented and erudite writer of history and memoirs. The historical epic opens with Churchill's years as a junior officer in India and free-lance war correspondent and follows him through his escape from a Boer War prison camp and his election to Parliament at age 26.

Director:

Richard Attenborough

Writer:

Carl Foreman

Cast:

Anne Bancroft, Simon Ward, Robert Shaw, Jane Seymour, Anthony Hopkins, Robert Flemyng

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

55%

Reviews

New Yorker

Pauline Kael

It’s not easy to explain, even to one’s own satisfaction, why Young Winston is enjoyable.

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,

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.

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.

June 25, 2017

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TV Guide

Ward is convincing as Churchill, and the other performances, particularly that of Shaw, are of a high order.

June 25, 2017

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