Winslow contre le roi

Titre original : The Winslow Boy

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Ajouter une intrigue dans votre langueIn pre-WWI England, a youngster is expelled from a naval academy over a petty theft, and his parents raise a political furor by demanding a trial.In pre-WWI England, a youngster is expelled from a naval academy over a petty theft, and his parents raise a political furor by demanding a trial.In pre-WWI England, a youngster is expelled from a naval academy over a petty theft, and his parents raise a political furor by demanding a trial.

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Nomination aux 1 BAFTA Award
- 2 nominations au total

Anecdotes
This film is based on the real-life Royal Navy cadet George Archer-Shee (1895-1914), the alleged theft took place in 1908 and the trial in 1910. Archer-Shee was commissioned in the British Army in 1913 and was killed in WWI at the First Battle of Ypres on October 31, 1914.

Gaffes
When the film opens, a suburban train is coming into a station. The locomotive is in the livery of LNER (London & North Eastern Railway). Arthur Winslow alights having told his travelling companions that he has just retired from Lloyds Bank. When he gets home he shows his wife a pocket watch the bank gave him to mark his retirement. It's dated 1912, but the LNER wasn't created until 1923.

Citations
Sir Robert Morton: Let right be done!

Connexions
Version of The Winslow Boy (1958)

Bandes originales
Snookey Pookey Twaddle
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Written by Howard Carr

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Very good version of the play that does well with both social and legal drama

Arthur Winslow is the head of a respectable London family; however this threatens to change when his young son is expelled from military school for stealing a postal order worth 5 shillings. Winslow risks his wealth and his family to pursue justice for his son. However when the military court of appeal rejects him he has to appeal to the highest court in the land through MP Sir Morton.

Having seen a recent version of this play I was curious to see another and was glad when I spotted it coming onto television. The play itself is pretty stagy and because of this it doesn't suffer from being dated the 1948 production values are easily the equal of the 1998 version. The film here differs from the recent version in that it has much more of the legal wrangling onscreen and not off. This makes the film much better as it encompasses both the social battle of the Winslow's and the legal one.

Both are involving and gripping but I must admit that I wasn't as caught up in the social drama as much as I wanted to be, because I felt that any family who's main worry in life was that there son had been excluded from school needn't worry about much! The fact that the Winslow's were able to get the ear of an MP just made it more difficult for me to get into few people live in such high circles (even if they work in a bank!).

The cast are good. Hardwicke is good as Winslow but the real star of the piece is Donat as Sir Morton. He is very stiff but also has layers that he reveals as he goes as well as carrying the weight of the legal thrills. The majority of the cast are good in roles of varying sizes and no-one does a noticeably bad job. Some are slight stereotypes but not to the film's detriment.

Overall this is a very good film and is better than the modern version. It mixes drama with wit and romance to good effect and puts the legal drama and the social drama on the same level rather than letting one suffer to the other. It had the potential to feel slow but the drama keeps it interesting throughout.