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Winston Churchill - The Wilderness
Years
The life and times of Winston Churchill; starring
Robert Hardy and Sian Phillips, directed by Ferdinand
Fairfax.
It's easy to forget that, though fronting the British war
effort through most of World War Two, Winston Churchill had spent the
previous decade isolated in Parliament and in an internal opposition to
the Conservative party. Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years
dramatises this period, in which the growing menace of Nazism in Germany
was met with indifference, even fear by governments of the day who were
more concerned with their survival than in serving those who had elected
them. Churchill is perceptively played by Robert Hardy who confirms the
image without falling into caricature. Visionary and obstinate by turns,
he galvanises his supporters and enrages his enemies with a passion borne
of conviction. A seasoned British cast includes Peter Barkworth as the
amiable but ineffectual Stanley Baldwin, Eric Porter as the truly "out of
time" Neville Chamberlain, Edward Woodward as the scheming Samuel Hoare,
and Nigel Havers as the tragically flawed Randolph Churchill. Martin
Gilbert has done a persuasive job transforming his novel into a TV script,
the scenes in the House of Commons having a gritty reality that makes
compulsive viewing.
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