My Boy Jack

Fernsehfilm
2007
TV-14
1 Std. 35 Min.

IMDb-BEWERTUNG

7,1/10

5723

IHRE BEWERTUNG

Author Rudyard Kipling and his wife search for their 18-year-old son after he goes missing during World War I.

trailer wiedergeben1:34

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5 Fotos

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Füge eine Handlung in deiner Sprache hinzuAuthor Rudyard Kipling and his wife search for their 18-year-old son after he goes missing during World War I.Author Rudyard Kipling and his wife search for their 18-year-old son after he goes missing during World War I.Author Rudyard Kipling and his wife search for their 18-year-old son after he goes missing during World War I.

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IMDb-BEWERTUNG

7,1/10

5723

IHRE BEWERTUNG

Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro

1 BAFTA Award gewonnen
- 4 Gewinne & 10 Nominierungen insgesamt

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Trailer 1:34

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Several scenes were shot at the actual Rudyard Kipling estate, Bateman's, where Kipling lived from 1902 until his death.

Patzer
In the movie the soldiers are taught to fire the Lee-Enfield rifle using their index finger on the trigger. This is incorrect. Guards regiments in the early part of the war were taught to fire 20 aimed rounds per minute. This fast rate of fire was achieved by virtue of the close proximity of the bolt mechanism and the trigger mechanism on the .303 Short Magazine Lee-Enfield rifle. Soldiers in Guards regiments were trained (like the Old Contemptibles) to fire the Lee-Enfield using the middle finger to fire the weapon while the index finger and thumb worked the bolt. The index finger and thumb would keep hold of the bolt THROUGHOUT the firing procedure, thus speeding up the rate of fire considerably. In the movie soldiers are clearly shown releasing the bolt on every shot in order to use the index finger to fire the weapon.

Zitate
[last lines]
Rudyard Kipling: Have you news of my boy Jack?/ Not this tide./ When d'you think that he'll come back?/ Not with this wind blowing, and this tide./ Has any one else had word of him?/ Not this tide./ For what is sunk will hardly swim, Not with this wind blowing, and this tide./ Oh, dear, what comfort can I find?/ None this tide,/ Nor any tide,/ Except he did not shame his kind-/ Not even with that wind blowing, and that tide./ Then hold your head up all the more,/ This tide,/ And every tide;/ Because he was the son you bore,/ And gave to that wind blowing and that tide!

Verbindungen
Featured in Masterpiece Theatre: My Boy Jack (2008)

Soundtracks
Happy Birthday to You
by Patty S. Hill (as Patti Hill Smith) & Mildred J. Hill (as Mildred Hill)
EMI Music Publishing Ltd

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7/10

Very good!

I basically agree with the consensus of the critics. This is another good, solid, made-for-TV production that leaves little to be desired.

Well produced, well filmed and well acted, finally a movie with a script, with intelligent, meaningful dialog. What a welcome surprise! My compliments to David Haig, not only for the aforementioned script, but also for his acting, which was nothing short of excellent. His Kipling is a real, living creature, we can see him, we can hear him, but we can also feel him, his pain is real, when he hurts, it is almost as if we do too.

If there is a flaw to this film, it is only that of not having dared to dig even deeper into the emotions of the main characters, which would undoubtedly have made it a much longer movie, but in my opinion also a better one.