The Young Mr. Pitt (1942)
September 21, 1942Release Date
The Young Mr. Pitt (1942)
September 21, 1942Release Date
Plot.
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This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Robert Donat
The Earl of Chatham and William Pitt
Phyllis Calvert
Eleanor Eden
Geoffrey Atkins
William Pitt as a boy
John Mills
William Wilberforce
Jean Cadell
Mrs. Sparry
Robert Morley
Charles James Fox
Carol Reed
Director
Viscount Castlerosse
Writer
Raymond Lovell
George the Third
Sidney Gilliat
Writer
Agnes Lauchlan
Queen Charlotte
Felix Aylmer
Lord North
Frank Launder
Writer
Edward Black
Producer
Ian McLean
Dundas
Freddie Young
Cinematographer
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)
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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.