THE YOUNG MR. PITT. (1942)
A great, but much underrated film which encompasses an important era of British history, the Napoleonic Wars, Trafalgar, and William Wilberforce. Now in Color
THE YOUNG MR. PITT.
(1942)
NOW IN COLOUR.
Starring
Robert Donat, Phyllis Calvert, Robert Morley and John Mills.
Directed by Carol Reed
Made during the second world war as a morale booster to show the nation how as a nation we coped with adversity in the past.
William Pitt the Younger, son of a famous politician father, becomes the youngest Prime Minister England has ever known, wins an election on the promise of peace and prosperity, yet ironically ends up as the presiding spirit of an interminable war with Revolutionary France. Both his health and his private life suffer from the strain.
A great, but much underrated film which encompasses an important era of British history, the Napoleonic Wars, Trafalgar, and William Wilberforce.
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Originally filmed in Black and White, we have colorized it.
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