The Young Mr Pitt

Infobox Film
name = The Young Mr Pitt


image_size =
caption = A scene from the film
director = Carol Reed
producer =
writer = Frank Launder &
Sidney Gilliat (screenplay);
Viscount Castlerosse (additional dialogue and original novel)
narrator =
starring = Robert Donat,
Robert Morley,
Herbert Lom
music = Louis Levy
cinematography = Freddie Young
editing = R.E. Dearing
distributor =
released = 1942
runtime = 118 min
country = United Kingdom & U.S.
language = English
budget =
gross =
amg_id =1:118109
imdb_id =0035586

The Young Mr Pitt is a 1942 biopic of William Pitt the Younger. Filmed in wartime, it mirrors his struggle against revolutionary France and Napoleon with Britain's struggle against Hitler's Germany. [Similar parallels were drawn between Napoleonic and contemporary history in the film "That Hamilton Woman".] Fact|date=August 2007 The period costumes were by Cecil Beaton and Elizabeth Haffenden.

Cast

* Robert Donat - Pitt
* Jean Cadell - Mrs. Sparry
* Robert Morley - Charles James Fox
* Phyllis Calvert - Eleanor Eden
* Raymond Lovell - George the Third
* Agnes Lauchlan - Queen Charlotte
* John Mills - William Wilberforce
* Felix Aylmer - Lord North
* Ian McLean - Dundas
* Max Adrian - Richard Brinsley Sheridan
* A. Bromley Davenport - Sir Evan Nepean
* Herbert Lom [In his first English-speaking role] - Napoleon
* Stephen Haggard - Horatio Nelson
* Albert Lieven - Talleyrand

ynopsis

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.

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External links

*http://www.britmovie.co.uk/directors/c_reed/filmography/019.html