Churchill and the Generals (1979)
3h
Running Time
September 23, 1979Release Date
Churchill and the Generals (1979)
3h
Running Time
September 23, 1979Release Date
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Plot.
The complicated relationship between Winston Churchill and the leaders of the British army during World War II.
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Cast & Crew.
Timothy West
Winston Churchill
Eric Porter
Gen. Sir Alan Brooke
Arthur Hill
President Franklin D. Roosevelt
Joseph Cotten
Gen. George C. Marshall
Richard Dysart
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower
Alan Gibson
Director
Ian Richardson
Gen. Bernard L. Montgomery
Patrick Allen
Gen. Sir Claude Auchinleck
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Churchill and the Generals is a 1979 BBC television drama concerning the relationship between Winston Churchill and generals of the Allied forces, set in the Cabinet Office and War Rooms between 1940 and 1945. It was written by Ian Curteis (with Peter Young as military advisor).
It was first broadcast on BBC 2 on 23 September 1979, and repeated on BBC 1 on 22 August 1981. It screened on 5 March 1981 in the United States.
The Times television critic Michael Ratcliffe wrote: 'Churchill, though trivial, was intermittently moving and fun (alternative title: Punch in the Second World War?)'Timothy West won the John Logie Baird performance award (1980). He reprised the role of Churchill in The Last Bastion (1984) and Hiroshima (1995).