UK,
1972, 157 min
(Alternative: 126 min)
Directed by:
Richard AttenboroughScreenplay:
Carl ForemanCinematography:
Gerry TurpinComposer:
Alfred RalstonCast:
Robert Shaw, Anne Bancroft, Simon Ward, Jack Hawkins, Ian Holm, Anthony Hopkins, Patrick Magee, Edward Woodward, John Mills, Peter Cellier, Russell Lewis (more)Plots(1)
Writer-producer Carl Foreman was approached by Churchill himself, who suggested his own book, 'My Early Life: A Roving Commission', would make a good film. The result is a lavish and beautifully detailed drama, with Simon Ward in the lead role, detailing Churchill’s service as a cavalry officer in India and the Sudan, as a war correspondent in the Second Boer War, and his election to Parliament at the age of 26. (Powerhouse Films)
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