Movie
The Winslow Boy
History film with a runtime of 97 minutes, released in 1948. Presented in English.
At a Glance
Synopsis
Based on the infamous Archer-Shee case of 1912, The Winslow Boy features Neil North as the 14-year-old title character. Accused of a petty theft, North is expelled from Naval College. His father, retired bank official Sir Cedric Hardwycke, is prevented by existing British law to clear his son's name. He engages attorney Robert Donat, who successfully petitions for the right to sue the Admiralty and make this august organization prove its charges in court. Public opinion, however, is strongly against Hardwycke and his family: particularly effected is Hardwycke's daughter Margaret Leighton, whose fiance breaks off their engagement. For dramatic purposes, Margaret finds solace in a romantic relationship with barrister Donat. Terrence Rattigan worked on the cinemadaptation of his own play, which was later restaged on American television.
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Cast
- Robert Donat
- Neil North
- Margaret Leighton
- Cedric Hardwicke
- Basil Radford
- Kathleen Harrison
- Francis L. Sullivan
- Marie Lohr
- Jack Watling
- Frank Lawton
- Walter Fitzgerald
- Wilfrid Hyde-White
- Ernst Thesiger
- Kynaston Reeves
- Ernest Thesiger
- Lewis Casson
- Stanley Holloway
- Cyril Ritchard
- Nicholas Hannen
- Evelyn Roberts
- Bill Shine
- Anthony Bird
- Barry Briggs
- Cecil Bevan
- Wilfred Caithness
- Lambert Enson
- Hugh Dempster
- Philip Ray
- Archibald Batty
- Edward Lexy
- Gordon McLeod
- W.A. Kelly
- George Bishop
- Charles Groves
- Ian Colin
- Ivan Samson
- Dandy Nichols
- Vera Cook
- Jane Gill Davies
- Beatrice Marsden
- Frank Tickle
- Honor Blake
- Margaret Withers
- Noel Howlett
- Aubrey Mallalieu
- Mary Hinton
- Nicholas Hawtrey
- Betty Marsden
- Hilary Pritchard
- Mona Washbourne
- William Chappell
- John O'Gorman
- Osmond Borradaile
- Hubert Clifford
- Terence Rattigan
- Anthony Asquith
- Andre Andrejew
- Teddy Baird
- Anatole de Grunwald
- W. Percy Day
- Gerald Turney-Smith
- Fred A. Young
