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Young Winston [VHS] (1972)

Starring: Robert Shaw, Anne Bancroft Director: Richard Attenborough Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) Format: VHS Tape

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Actors: Robert Shaw, Anne Bancroft, Simon Ward, Jack Hawkins, Ian Holm
Directors: Richard Attenborough
Format: Color, NTSC
Language: English
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Number of tapes: 1
Studio: RCA Columbia Pictures Home Video
VHS Release Date: May 30, 1995
Run Time: 131 minutes

Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (11 customer reviews)

ASIN: 6302424879
Amazon.com Sales Rank: #16,637 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Foreshadowing of Greatness, February 6, 1999

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This is the story of Winston Churchill from his troubled boyhood up until he emerged on the scene in Parliament as a young man. Anne Bancroft stars as his mother, Jenny, and Robert Shaw as his father, Sir Randolph Churchill. Bancroft's character is less promiscuous than was Churchill's real mother. Shaw, however, captures the distant relationship between father and son and accurately portrays the elusive Parliamentary leader.

The young actor portraying Winston joins them in an excellent performance. He balances Churchill's raw ambition with his overwhelming sense of honor and high calling. He foreshadows, but does not overplay, the speech patterns and unique orating style of the future Prime Minister.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Fine bio pic, June 7, 2005

By	Kimberley Wilson (VA USA) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)

Winston Churchill's early years make for a fine movie. By all rights young Winston should have been an upper class twit or a hopeless depressive. Although born in a palace he had a childhood none of us would want. His parents were terrible as the movie plainly shows. Her father was a brilliant, complex man and is wonderfully portrayed by Robert Shaw (Quint from Jaws and Red Grant in From Russia with Love). On his good days Lord Churchill is a distant father, and a poor husband but Robert Shaw makes you care about him when he destroys his career and you pity him when his mind starts to decay.

The late Anne Bancroft plays Jenny Churchill who although one of the most beautiful and charming women in England was a somewhat negelctful mother who didn't seem to pay attention to her son until he was grown and began to pull away from her.

Then the movie goes from sad to funny to sad again. Teenaged Winston developes a brittle cocksureness that alienates quite a few people but is an effective cover and reaction to the crappy childhood he endured.

Finally, after his father's death Winston ungergoes a Henry V-esque transformation. The neglected, "dumb" kid becomes a soldier, briefly a POW, writer and then a politician who would eclispe everything his fahter ever did. Simon Ward does a great job of playing a Winston Churchill most of us are unfamiliar with. The costumes are great. The scenary is great. The battle scenes are disturbing. It's a worthwhile and entertaining film.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Forming a Leader, March 14, 2007

By	John Matlock "Gunny" (Winnemucca, NV) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Young Winston is the story of Winston Churchill. It begins with him being sent off to school at about six, but spends much of its time with him as a young officer in the British Army. The best part to me was the episode during the Boar where he was captured and then escaped. I've been to the spot where he was captured and it was rendered very well in the movie. Indeed it was to see this event that I bought the movie and I was not dissappointed.

Although he had a craving for publicity and perhaps over stated his own abilities, he was certainly no coward.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A Great Ripping Yarn!
They don't make movies like this anymore, and that's a sad fact. The movie recounts Winston Churchhill's life before he entered politics, and boy what a life he led before his... Read more

Published on June 19, 2006 by Dean Jackson

5.0 out of 5 stars Churchill light
If you want a good but "light" version of W.S.C. life then this is a good place to start. I just wish that someone would do say like Manchestors books on him into a film. Read more

Published on July 17, 2005 by D. D Lawson

3.0 out of 5 stars Faithful to its source (unfortunately)
This film is quite faithful to its source, "My Early Life", a partial autobiography published in 1930 when WSC's career was fully in the dumpster and he was thought to... Read more

Published on December 3, 2003 by L. E. Cantrell

3.0 out of 5 stars Had promise as an actioneer but fizzled.
This film starts very strongly with action in the northwest frontier of India but then spends an hour concentrating on Winston's childhood and his ailing father. Read more

Published on February 12, 2003 by Dan Cox

4.0 out of 5 stars GLORIFIES HIM TOO MUCH
This movie based on CHURCHILL's own memoirs about his younger days is definitely worth seeing,even if RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH has made the mistake of beleiving everything he read as... Read more

Published on September 16, 2002 by ALAIN ROBERT

4.0 out of 5 stars Young Winston - Coming of Age in the Last Days of Empire
One of my favorite movies of this historical period, offering military history-buffs a companion piece to that great film The Four Feathers. Read more

Published on July 26, 2002

3.0 out of 5 stars Not His Finest Hour
Young Winston, the story of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill's early years, was one of my favorite films when I saw it 25 years ago as a teenager. Read more

Published on September 15, 2001

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