The Winslow Boy (Original title)
Date: 08 November 1948 (Release)Country: United KingdomDirected by: Anthony Asquith
Synopsis: Period drama. Story of middle-class father's battle with the Admiralty to establish his son's innocence when the latter is expelled from a boys naval boarding school for stealing a postal order, taking things as far as the High Court.
Genre: Legal and Courtroom drama
Subject: Boarding schools
Releases
Date: 1948Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 116 mins Length: 10450 FeetDialogue (original): English
Date: November 2019Country: United KingdomRelease type: InternetFormat: not specified - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 117 mins Dialogue (original): EnglishDistributor: BFIPlayer
Title: Reviews: DVDs: The Winslow BoyAuthor: BROOKE, Michael Article type: DVD ReviewLanguage: English
In: Films and Filming n334 July 1982 Page: 34
Title: [Films and Filming - n334 July 1982: no known title]Language: English
Description: Asquith Unit list handout.
In: Kinematograph Weekly n2337 10 Apr 1952 Page: 16
Title: [Kinematograph Weekly - n2337 10 Apr 1952: no known title]Language: English
In: Today's Cinema v78 n6476 3 Apr 1952 Page: 7
Title: [Today's Cinema - v78 n6476 3 Apr 1952: no known title]Language: English
In: Motion Picture Herald v178 n10 11 Mar 1950
Title: [Motion Picture Herald - v178 n10 11 Mar 1950: no known title]Language: English
In: Monthly Film Bulletin v15 n177 September 1948 Page: 126
Title: [Monthly Film Bulletin - v15 n177 September 1948: no known title]Language: English
In: Today's Cinema v71 n5696 3 Sep 1948
Title: [Today's Cinema - v71 n5696 3 Sep 1948: no known title]Language: English
In: Kinematograph Weekly n2157 2 Sep 1948
Title: [Kinematograph Weekly - n2157 2 Sep 1948: no known title]Article type: ReviewLanguage: English
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Description: 35mm BW PositiveBase: SafetySound: CombinedLength: 10627 FeetStock date: 1952BFI identifier: C-195020
Status: Viewing - Viewing experience and projection may be compromised by condition of film print (servicing required)
Description: 35mm BW PositiveBase: SafetySound: CombinedLength: 10653 FeetStock date: 1981BFI identifier: C-195021
Status: Viewing - Film print can be requested for access (servicing required)
Description: 35mm BW PositiveBase: CTASound: CombinedLength: 10544 FeetBFI identifier: C-1468774
Status: Viewing - Viewing experience and projection may be compromised by condition of film print (servicing required)
Film materials(13)
Description: 35mm BW PositiveBase: NitrateSound: CombinedLength: 500 FeetBFI identifier: C-195022
Status: Status pending - Material requires inspection to determine preservation or access status
Description: 35mm BW PositiveBase: SafetySound: CombinedLength: 10627 FeetStock date: 1952BFI identifier: C-195020
Status: Viewing - Viewing experience and projection may be compromised by condition of film print (servicing required)
Description: 35mm BW PositiveBase: SafetySound: CombinedLength: 10653 FeetStock date: 1981BFI identifier: C-195021
Status: Viewing - Film print can be requested for access (servicing required)
Description: 35mm BW PositiveBase: CTASound: CombinedLength: 10544 FeetBFI identifier: C-1468774
Status: Viewing - Viewing experience and projection may be compromised by condition of film print (servicing required)
Description: 35mm Dupe NegativeBase: SafetySound: Combined as MuteLength: 10416 FeetStock date: 1981BFI identifier: C-195018
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film
Description: 35mm Dupe NegativeBase: SafetySound: SoundLength: 10710 FeetStock date: 1981BFI identifier: C-195019
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film
Description: 35mm Dupe NegativeBase: NitrateSound: CombinedBFI identifier: C-195028
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film
Description: 35mm Original NegativeBase: NitrateSound: SoundLength: 09.0900 FeetBFI identifier: C-195024
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film
Description: 35mm Original NegativeBase: NitrateSound: SoundLength: 09.0950 FeetStock date: 1948BFI identifier: C-195025
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film
Description: 35mm Original NegativeBase: NitrateSound: MuteLength: 03.0025 FeetStock date: 1950BFI identifier: C-195026
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film
Description: 35mm Original NegativeBase: NitrateSound: SoundLength: 11400 FeetStock date: 1948BFI identifier: C-1606543
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film
Description: 35mm Re-recorded NegativeBase: NitrateSound: SoundLength: 09.1000 FeetStock date: 1948BFI identifier: C-195023
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film
Description: 35mm X-Mods PositiveBase: NitrateSound: SoundLength: 250 FeetStock date: 1948BFI identifier: C-1606542
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film
Date: 08 November 1948 (Release)Country: United KingdomDirected by: Anthony Asquith
Synopsis: Period drama. Story of middle-class father's battle with the Admiralty to establish his son's innocence when the latter is expelled from a boys naval boarding school for stealing a postal order, taking things as far as the High Court.
Genre: Legal and Courtroom drama
Subject: Boarding schools
Releases
Date: 1948Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 116 mins Length: 10450 FeetDialogue (original): English
Date: November 2019Country: United KingdomRelease type: InternetFormat: not specified - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 117 mins Dialogue (original): EnglishDistributor: BFIPlayer
Credits
(53)
Presents: London Film Productions, [Production Company]: British Lion Production Assets Limited, Distributed by: British Lion Film Corporation, Produced by: Anatole de Grunwald, Associate Producer: Teddy Baird, Production Manager: R. Kinnoch, Assistant Director: Pat Jenkins, [Assistant Director (2nd)]: Jack Causey, [Assistant Director (3rd)]: Ted Cotton, Continuity: Jo Harcourt, [Assistant Continuity]: Pamela Davies, [Casting]: Dorothy Holloway, [Crowd Casting]: Bill Herlihy, Script Editor: Hazel Wilkinson, Screenplay by: Terence Rattigan, Anatole de Grunwald, Adapted from the Play by: Terence Rattigan, Director of Photography: Frederick Young, Exterior Photography: O. Borradaile, Camera Operator: John Wilcox, [Focus Puller]: Irvin Pannaman, [Clapper Loader]: Godfrey Godar, [Stills]: Ray Hearne, Ted Reed, Special Effects by: W. Percy Day, Editor: Gerald Turney Smith, [Assembly Cutter]: Lee Doig, [Assistant Editor]: Derek York, Deborah Hipkins, Art Director: André Andrejew, Assistant Art Director: Maurice Fowler, [Draughtsman]: James Sawyer, Elizabeth Scott, Costumes Designed by: William Chappel, Costumes Supervisor: Susan King-Clark, Wardrobe: Ivy Baker, Make-up: U.P. Hutchinson, Make-up: John O'Gorman, [Make-up Assistant]: Connie Reeves, Charles Nash, Hairdressing: Joe Shear, Music Composed by: William Alwyn, [Music] Played by: The London Film Symphony Orchestra, Musical Direction: Dr Hubert Clifford, Sound Supervisor: John Cox, Sound Recording: Leo Wilkins, Sound Recording: Red Law, Sound System: RCA Sound System, [Boom Operator]: Ken Ritchie, Sound Editor: B.H. Hipkins, Period Adviser: Michael Weight, Produced at: London Film Studios Shepperton
Cast
(49)
Robert Donat (Sir Robert Morton), Sir Cedric Hardwicke (Arthur Winslow), Basil Radford (Desmond Curry), Kathleen Harrison (Violet, the maid), Francis L. Sullivan (attorney general), Marie Lohr (Grace Winslow), Jack Watling (Dickie Winslow), Stanley Holloway (music hall comedian), Frank Lawton (John Watherstone), Cyril Ritchard (music hall comedian), Neil North (Ronnie Winslow), Margaret Leighton (Catherine Winslow), Walter Fitzgerald (First Lord), Nicholas Hannen (Colonel Watherstone), Hugh Dempster (agricultural member), Evelyn Roberts (Hamilton M.P.), W.A. Kelly (Brian O'Rourke), Edward Lexy (1st elderly member (smoking room)), Gordon McLeod (2nd elderly member (smoking room)), Marie Michelle (Mrs Curry), Mona Washbourne (Miss Barnes), Ivan Sampson (Captain Flower), Kynaston Reeves (Lord Chief Justice), Charles Groves (clerk of the court), Ernest Thesiger (Mr Ridgeley Pierce), Vera Cook (Violet's friend), Wilfrid Hyde White ([Watkinson, Sir Robert's clerk]), Archibald Batty ([first speaking member]), Jane Gill-Davis ([Mrs Curry, Desmond's mother]), Frank Tickle ([Mr Gunn]), Bill Shine ([Fred, the photographer]), Anthony Bird ([first Lord's P.P.S.]), Barry Biggs ([Sir Robert's P.P.S.]), Honor Blake ([Edwina Gunn]), Cecil Bevan ([speaker]), Wilfred Caithness ([minister]), Philip Ray ([2nd speaking member]), Hilary Pritchard ([Dr Anstruther]), George Bishop ([first usher]), Ian Colin ([Saunders, Sir Robert's junior]), Dandy Nichols ([Miss Hawkins]), Lewis Casson ([Admiral Springfield]), Margaret Withers ([Mrs Jordan]), Noel Howlett ([Mr Williams]), Aubrey Mallalieu ([Mr Roberts]), Mary Hinton ([Mrs Elliott]), Nicholas Hawtrey ([Charles Elliott Jr]), Beatrice Marsden ([cook]), David Horne ([bank manager])
Articles held in BFI Reuben Library
(8)
In: Sight and Sound v19 n6 June 2009 Page: 87Title: Reviews: DVDs: The Winslow BoyAuthor: BROOKE, Michael Article type: DVD ReviewLanguage: English
In: Films and Filming n334 July 1982 Page: 34
Title: [Films and Filming - n334 July 1982: no known title]Language: English
Description: Asquith Unit list handout.
In: Kinematograph Weekly n2337 10 Apr 1952 Page: 16
Title: [Kinematograph Weekly - n2337 10 Apr 1952: no known title]Language: English
In: Today's Cinema v78 n6476 3 Apr 1952 Page: 7
Title: [Today's Cinema - v78 n6476 3 Apr 1952: no known title]Language: English
In: Motion Picture Herald v178 n10 11 Mar 1950
Title: [Motion Picture Herald - v178 n10 11 Mar 1950: no known title]Language: English
In: Monthly Film Bulletin v15 n177 September 1948 Page: 126
Title: [Monthly Film Bulletin - v15 n177 September 1948: no known title]Language: English
In: Today's Cinema v71 n5696 3 Sep 1948
Title: [Today's Cinema - v71 n5696 3 Sep 1948: no known title]Language: English
In: Kinematograph Weekly n2157 2 Sep 1948
Title: [Kinematograph Weekly - n2157 2 Sep 1948: no known title]Article type: ReviewLanguage: English
Film, Video or Digital materials held in BFI National Archive(13)
Accessible materials to view(3)
Description: 35mm BW PositiveBase: SafetySound: CombinedLength: 10627 FeetStock date: 1952BFI identifier: C-195020
Status: Viewing - Viewing experience and projection may be compromised by condition of film print (servicing required)
Description: 35mm BW PositiveBase: SafetySound: CombinedLength: 10653 FeetStock date: 1981BFI identifier: C-195021
Status: Viewing - Film print can be requested for access (servicing required)
Description: 35mm BW PositiveBase: CTASound: CombinedLength: 10544 FeetBFI identifier: C-1468774
Status: Viewing - Viewing experience and projection may be compromised by condition of film print (servicing required)
Film materials(13)
Description: 35mm BW PositiveBase: NitrateSound: CombinedLength: 500 FeetBFI identifier: C-195022
Status: Status pending - Material requires inspection to determine preservation or access status
Description: 35mm BW PositiveBase: SafetySound: CombinedLength: 10627 FeetStock date: 1952BFI identifier: C-195020
Status: Viewing - Viewing experience and projection may be compromised by condition of film print (servicing required)
Description: 35mm BW PositiveBase: SafetySound: CombinedLength: 10653 FeetStock date: 1981BFI identifier: C-195021
Status: Viewing - Film print can be requested for access (servicing required)
Description: 35mm BW PositiveBase: CTASound: CombinedLength: 10544 FeetBFI identifier: C-1468774
Status: Viewing - Viewing experience and projection may be compromised by condition of film print (servicing required)
Description: 35mm Dupe NegativeBase: SafetySound: Combined as MuteLength: 10416 FeetStock date: 1981BFI identifier: C-195018
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film
Description: 35mm Dupe NegativeBase: SafetySound: SoundLength: 10710 FeetStock date: 1981BFI identifier: C-195019
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film
Description: 35mm Dupe NegativeBase: NitrateSound: CombinedBFI identifier: C-195028
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film
Description: 35mm Original NegativeBase: NitrateSound: SoundLength: 09.0900 FeetBFI identifier: C-195024
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film
Description: 35mm Original NegativeBase: NitrateSound: SoundLength: 09.0950 FeetStock date: 1948BFI identifier: C-195025
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film
Description: 35mm Original NegativeBase: NitrateSound: MuteLength: 03.0025 FeetStock date: 1950BFI identifier: C-195026
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film
Description: 35mm Original NegativeBase: NitrateSound: SoundLength: 11400 FeetStock date: 1948BFI identifier: C-1606543
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film
Description: 35mm Re-recorded NegativeBase: NitrateSound: SoundLength: 09.1000 FeetStock date: 1948BFI identifier: C-195023
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film
Description: 35mm X-Mods PositiveBase: NitrateSound: SoundLength: 250 FeetStock date: 1948BFI identifier: C-1606542
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film