The Young Mr Pitt

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The Young Mr Pitt

A scene from the film
Directed by Carol Reed
Written by Frank Launder &
Sidney Gilliat (screenplay);
Viscount Castlerosse (additional dialogue and original novel)
Starring Robert Donat,
Robert Morley,
Herbert Lom
Music by Louis Levy
Cinematography Freddie Young
Editing by R.E. Dearing
Release date(s) 1942
Running time 118 min
Country United Kingdom & U.S.
Language English
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The Young Mr Pitt is a 1942 biopic of William Pitt the Younger. Filmed in wartime, it mirrors his struggle against revolutionary France and Napoleon with Britain's struggle against Hitler's Germany.[1][citation needed] The period costumes were by Cecil Beaton and Elizabeth Haffenden.

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William Pitt the Younger, son of a famous politician father, becomes the youngest Prime Minister England has ever known, wins an election on the promise of peace and prosperity, yet ironically ends up as the presiding spirit of an interminable war with Revolutionary France. Both his health and his private life suffer from the strain.

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  1. ^ Similar parallels were drawn between Napoleonic and contemporary history in the film That Hamilton Woman.
  2. ^ In his first English-speaking role

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