Directed by Richard Attenborough
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Sony Screen Classics by Request)
Uneven account of the childhood to young adult years of the famous British politician. His school boy days consist of being ignored by his father and sent off to boarding school. He gets poor grades and is spanked by the schoolmaster to the point of falling ill and withdrawing. Meanwhile, poor old dad has syphilis and is slowly going mad. As a teenager, he gets into a military academy and is sent off to war in India and South Africa. He gets captured, sent to a POW camp and makes a dramatic escape. He rides the fame of his exploits into parliament, and the rest, as they say, is history. I just wish it wasn't all so dreadfully boring. Running narration by an older Churchill is an unnecessary distraction, and in an accent that is practically unintelligible.
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