Young Winston (1972) on Netflix
A junior officer on the North-West Frontier, Winston Churchill means to make a name for himself and enter Parliament. His boyhood takes in an unhappy prep school, Harrow and Sandhurst.
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Plot summary
Winston Churchill is a boy at a preparatory boarding school, and he is unhappy enough there that his parents bring him home after a caning. He submits a blank paper in the entrance examination for Harrow School, and the headmaster, James Welldon, takes him in all the same. At a school presentation he recites a poem of a thousand lines; his nanny comes to hear him, his parents do not. His father, Lord Randolph Churchill, resigns as Chancellor of the Exchequer, and doctors tell Lady Randolph that her husband's illness cannot be cured. Watching his son play with tin soldiers, Lord Randolph proposes the army. Winston is accepted by Sandhurst on his third attempt, and his father, unhappy at a placing near the bottom of the class, warns him to make something of himself.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Young Winston (1972)
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- Carl Foreman was invited to meet Winston Churchill after Churchill had seen and enjoyed Foreman's 1961 production of The Guns of Navarone. At that meeting, Churchill himself suggested that his book My Early Life would make an excellent film.
- Foreman was impressed by Richard Attenborough's Oh! What a Lovely War and at first wanted him both to direct Young Winston and to play Lord Randolph Churchill. Attenborough declined the acting part.
