Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9786302424874 Format: Color, NTSC ISBN: 6302424879 Label: RCA Columbia Pictures Home Video Manufacturer: RCA Columbia Pictures Home Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: RCA Columbia Pictures Home Video Release Date: May 30, 1995 Running Time: 131 minutes Sales Rank: 7080 Studio: RCA Columbia Pictures Home Video Theatrical Release Date: 1972
Rating: - Forming a Leader
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.
Rating: - 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 25th birthday! If Winston had never entered politics, he would still have gone down in history as a noted soldier/writer.
Winston saw it all. He was there in the 1897 punitive expidition on the northwest frontier of India when the area went up in flames. He was there too in 1898 in the Sudan when the Viceroy of India, Lord Herbert Kitchener, decided to take back Khartoum from the Mahdi forces, who 13 years earlier ... Read More
Rating: - 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. It is one hell of a good story that needs telling more now than ever. I frankly feel that Churchill will be rated the Man of the 20th Century and a sort of Cassandra to boot. He had that much vision into the future.
Rating: - Fine bio pic
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.
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Rating: - 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 be a mere divider between the two brilliant Randolphs, his father and his son.
The book is a crackling read, full of the old umpity-oof, as P. G. Wodehouse might say. It is particularly engaging in that every reader knows more about the brash young upstart at its center than did the middle-aged failure who wrote it.
I have given the film just three stars because of this very faithfulness. Alas, the film is paced like ... Read More
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