The Winslow Boy
by David Mamet
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Actor: Gemma Jones, Lana Bilzerian, Matthew Pidgeon, Nigel Hawthorne, Rebecca PidgeonDirector: David Mamet
Brand: HAWTHORNE,NIGEL
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen, 1.85:1
Running Time: 110 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2000-02-01
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Studio: Sony Pictures
DVD Reviews of The Winslow Boy
DVD Review: Linda
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie was wonderful. Casting, directing, costume and story were excellent. My husband and I watch it over and overDVD Review: Excellent production, but the Anthony Asquith one from the '40s is better
Summary: 5 Stars
This production of THE WINSLOW BOY is excellent, in particular, Jeremy Northam and Nigel Hawthorne, and is well worth acquiring. But the 1946 Anthony Asquith-directed version remains one of the great films of the British cinema, and superior to this one. Robert Donat's Sir Robert Morton is a stunning achievement, and Sir Cedric Hardwicke's portrayal of the elder Winslow, a winning stand-out.
At the time I acquired the 1946 version (via Amazon.com Marketplace), only a PAL format version was available, which is all the more reason for discriminating American movie viewers to acquire an "all regions" DVD player. I found an excellent Sony all regions/PAL player out of Illinois for around $65...it makes you wonder why "all regions" players aren't more widely sold in the US?
In any event, this 1999 version is quite good...
DVD Review: The Winslow Boy
Summary: 4 Stars
I am a big indie movie fan....Great stories without the big Hollywood spin. I loved The Winslow Boy the first time I saw it, but I could never find it for sale in the stores. If you enjoy period pieces, great acting and a somewhat sentimental story, you will love The Winslow Boy!DVD Review: Fantastic Movie
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie creates suspense out of nothing, and springs wonderful little surprises everywhere. A great little move, with great acting. It gives you a little taste of English Parliament too!DVD Review: What a Delightful Surprise!
Summary: 5 Stars
It took me several years to get around to purchasing "The Winslow Boy". Although I was certain that I would like it--after all, Nigel Hawthorne was in it--I had no idea that I was in for an hour-and-a-half of such absorbing drama. In one of his last roles, Hawthorne brings a poignant combination of strength and tenderness to the role of the patriarch, whose determination to "let right be done" almost breaks apart the family that he is trying to preserve. His scenes with Gemma Jones--torn apart by her conflicting roles as loyal wife and loving mother--are especially moving. Because of the ensemble acting of the entire cast, the family dynamic is entirely believable.
The real surprise for me, however, was Jeremy Northam in the role of Sir Robert Morton, KC, MP. Although Northam's performances in films such as "Gosford Park" and "Enigma" have been enjoyable, his portrayal of the aristocratic barrister quietly sizzled with sensual undertones that would do a handsome brooding Jane Austen hero proud. I found myself waiting for him to come onstage, as it were; and wishing that I could hear his moving summation to the jury; and that I might be allowed to follow Sir Robert's romantic pursuit of Miss Winslow. The last lines of the film are simply tantalizing.
Much of this "wanting more of Morton" derives not only from Northam's portrayal, but also from playwright Terrance Rattigan's technique of having the action take place offstage. The technique, which dates back to Greek tragedy, contributes to the dramatic tension of "The Winslow Boy." The very device of having characters relate the events taking place elsewhere, however, will likely render the drama inaccessible to some viewers, who demand fast-paced visual action. But for those who savor a riveting drama of quality, "The Winslow Boy" will not disappoint.
Description of The Winslow Boy
Courtroom drama of the trial of a boy wrongfully accused of theft and expelled from school, based on a true story from 19th century England.Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: G
Release Date: 1-FEB-2000
Media Type: DVD
Many thought The Winslow Boy was an odd choice of material for David Mamet. It was originally a Terence Rattigan play from 1946, taken from a true incident in England in 1908 about a boy, 13, discharged from Royal Naval College for allegedly stealing and cashing a five-shilling postal order. The boy's father, Arthur Winslow (Nigel Hawthorne), mounts a lengthy and expensive legal campaign to clear his boy's and by extension his own name, with the rallying cry, "Let right be done!" The resultant notoriety, the dwindling fortune of the Winslows, as well as the punishment this pressure exacts on them, form the surface action of the story. Yet underneath the staid manners of the dialogue there roils a whole emotional life hardly hinted at in the actors' faces. The famous lawyer engaged to defend the boy, Sir Robert Morton (Jeremy Northam), makes a suitable sparring partner for the Winslows' daughter, Catherine (Rebecca Pidgeon), a suffragette whose suitors are scared off by the family's legal battle. The unspoken romance between these two is more the point than whether right is done or not. Pidgeon brings the same inscrutable countenance that complicated her role in Mamet's previous film, The Spanish Prisoner, to this film--but here everybody seems to have it. As the differences between appearance and actuality reconcile themselves, Mamet builds bridges to his other works, House of Games and The Spanish Prisoner, for instance, for the ways in which dialogue is a cover for someone's true nature. The Winslow Boy is masterful in its quiet treatment of human mysteries. --Jim Gay
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