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The Winslow Boy (Original title)
Date: 08 November 1948 (Release)

Country: United Kingdom

Directed 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])