The Young Mr. Pitt (1942)
September 21, 1942Release Date
The Young Mr. Pitt (1942)
September 21, 1942Release Date
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Cast & Crew.
Robert Donat
William Pitt / The Earl of Chatham
Robert Morley
Charles James Fox
Phyllis Calvert
Eleanor Eden
John Mills
William Wilberforce
Geoffrey Atkins
William Pitt, as a boy
Jean Cadell
Mrs. Sparry
Raymond Lovell
George the Third
Agnes Lauchlan
Queen Charlotte
Felix Aylmer
Lord North
Ian McLean
Dundas
Max Adrian
Richard Sheridan
A. Bromley Davenport
Sir Evan Nepean
John Salew
Smith
Herbert Lom
Napoleon
Albert Lieven
Talleyrand
Stephen Haggard
Lord Nelson
Stuart Lindsell
Earl Spencer
Henry Hewitt
Addington
Frederick Culley
Sir Wm. Farquhar
Frank Pettingell
Coachman
Leslie Bradley
Gentleman Jackson
Roy Emerton
Dan Mendoza
Hugh McDermott
Mr. Melvill
Alfred Sangster
Lord Grenville
Kathleen Byron
Millicent Grey (uncredited)
Leo Genn
Danton (uncredited)
Hugh Ardale
Naval Officer
Esma Cannon
Servant at Lord Auckland's
H. Carleton-Crowe
Old Man
Leslie Dwyer
Servant at Lord Auckland's
Peter Gawthorne
Admiral
Muriel George
Mrs. Carr
James Harcourt
Bellamy
David Horne
Mayor
Max Kirby
3rd Secretary
Frederick Leister
Lord Auckland
Aubrey Mallalieu
Somerset
Gibb McLaughlin
George Selwyn
Gertrude Maesmore Morris
Lady in Waiting
Ronald Shiner
Man in Stocks
Merle Tottenham
Maid at Lord Auckland's
Austin Trevor
French Registrar
Grant Tyler
Boy
Margaret Vyner
Duchess of Devonshire
Jack Watling
Atkinson
Carol Reed
Director
R. E. Dearing
Editor
Sidney Gilliat
Screenplay
Louis Levy
Music Director
B. C. Sewell
Sound Director
Alex Vetchinsky
Art Direction
Cecil Beaton
Costume Design
Viscount Castlerosse
Additional Dialogue
Elizabeth Haffenden
Costume Design
Edward Black
Producer
Maurice Ostrer
Producer
Biddy Chrystal
Hairstylist
Charles Williams
Music
Frank Launder
Screenplay
Freddie Young
Director of Photography
Ralph Roberts
Billy Holland
Morland Graham
Alf Goddard
Neal Arden
Johnny Brandon
Philip Friend
Johnnie Schofield
J.H. Roberts
John Slater
Ann Stephens
Owen Reynolds
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The Young Mr. Pitt is a 1942 British biographical film of the life of William Pitt the Younger and in particular his struggle against revolutionary France and Napoleon. It was directed by Carol Reed and stars Robert Donat, Robert Morley, Phyllis Calvert and John Mills. Made in black-and-white, it was produced by Edward Black and Maurice Ostrer for the British subsidiary of 20th Century Fox.
It was filmed as the Second World War was raging. Similar parallels with the struggle against Hitler's Germany were implied in That Hamilton Woman (aka Lady Hamilton, 1941), made by Alexander Korda in the United States with Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh in the leads. Several of the speeches which Pitt makes against Napoleon are actually the words of Churchill in relation to Hitler, in particular the "we stand alone" speech from 1940.