"Spanish Prisoner."" There is a short ""making of"" feature. The Winslow Boy (1999 film) The Winslow Boy is a 1999 period drama film directed by David Mamet. Starring Nigel Hawthorne, Rebecca Pidgeon, Jeremy Northam and Gemma Jones. Set in London before World War I, it depicts a family defending the honour of its young son at all cost. The screenplay was adapted by Mamet based on Terence Rattigan's dramatic play ""The Winslow Boy"". It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival. It is Christmas 1911 and Arthur Winslow, a London banker, is making"
"the play premiered in 1946, it is not possible for a four-year-old to have played that role. Rebecca Pidgeon, who plays Catherine, is the wife of playwright and director David Mamet. Matthew Pidgeon, who plays Dickie Winslow (Catherine's brother), is Rebecca Pidgeon's real-life brother. Set against the strict codes of conduct and manners of the age, ""The Winslow Boy"" is based on a father's fight to clear his son's name after the boy is expelled from Osborne Naval College for stealing a postal order. To clear the boy's name was imperative for the family's honour; had they not done so,"
"Terence Rattigan Sir Terence Mervyn Rattigan, CBE (10 June 191130 November 1977) was a British dramatist. He was one of England's most popular mid twentieth century dramatists. His plays are typically set in an upper-middle-class background. He wrote ""The Winslow Boy"" (1946), ""The Browning Version"" (1948), ""The Deep Blue Sea"" (1952) and ""Separate Tables"" (1954), among many others. A troubled homosexual, who saw himself as an outsider, his plays centred on issues of sexual frustration, failed relationships, and a world of repression and reticence. Terence Rattigan was born in 1911 in South Kensington, London, of Irish Protestant extraction. He had"
"Anthony Asquith Anthony William Lars Asquith (; 9 November 1902 – 20 February 1968) was a leading English film director. He collaborated successfully with playwright Terence Rattigan on ""The Winslow Boy"" (1948) and ""The Browning Version"" (1951), among other adaptations. His other notable films include ""Pygmalion"" (1938), ""French Without Tears"" (1940), ""The Way to the Stars"" (1945) and a 1952 adaptation of Oscar Wilde's ""The Importance of Being Earnest"". Born in London, he was the son of H. H. Asquith, the Prime Minister from 1908 to 1916, and Margot Asquith, who was responsible for 'Puffin' as his family nickname. He"
"Marie Lohr and Jack Watling (who was also in the original West End theatre production). Also in the cast are Stanley Holloway, Mona Washbourne, Ernest Thesiger, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Lewis Casson, Cyril Ritchard and Dandy Nichols. Neil North, who plays the title role, also appeared in the 1999 film adaptation directed by David Mamet. Set against the strict codes of conduct and manners of the age, ""The Winslow Boy"" is based on a father's fight to clear his son's name. The boy (Ronnie) is expelled from Osborne Naval College for supposedly stealing a five shilling postal order, without receiving a fair"
"George Winslow George ""Foghorn"" Winslow (May 3, 1946 – June 13, 2015), born George Karl Wentzlaff, was an American child actor of the 1950s known for his stentorian voice and deadpan demeanor. He appeared in several films, some opposite such stars as Marilyn Monroe, Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers, Dean Martin, and Jerry Lewis. In the late 1950s, he retired from acting. Nicknamed ""Foghorn"" for his raspy voice as a slender child with dark blond hair and deep blue eyes, Wentzlaff, a Los Angeles native, broke into the entertainment business on Art Linkletter's family-oriented radio program, ""People are Funny"". Asked his"
"by other writers: Other works including discussions on Rattigan's theatre: Terence Rattigan Sir Terence Mervyn Rattigan, CBE (10 June 191130 November 1977) was a British dramatist. He was one of England's most popular mid twentieth century dramatists. His plays are typically set in an upper-middle-class background. He wrote ""The Winslow Boy"" (1946), ""The Browning Version"" (1948), ""The Deep Blue Sea"" (1952) and ""Separate Tables"" (1954), among many others. A troubled homosexual, who saw himself as an outsider, his plays centred on issues of sexual frustration, failed relationships, and a world of repression and reticence. Terence Rattigan was born in 1911"
"Neil North Neil North (18 October 19327 March 2007) was a British actor, best known for his role in the 1948 film adaptation of Terence Rattigan's play ""The Winslow Boy"". North appeared in four other films released between 1948 and 1951, but did not make acting a full-time career. After a hiatus of over 40 years however, he did return to the screen with three further credits towards the end of his life, including a role in the 1999 remake of ""The Winslow Boy"". North was born in Quetta, British India, the youngest son of an officer in the Indian"
"successful 2000 film ""Billy Elliot"". His last screen appearance was as an extra in Robert De Niro's 2006 film ""The Good Shepherd. North died in London on 7 March 2007, aged 74. Neil North Neil North (18 October 19327 March 2007) was a British actor, best known for his role in the 1948 film adaptation of Terence Rattigan's play ""The Winslow Boy"". North appeared in four other films released between 1948 and 1951, but did not make acting a full-time career. After a hiatus of over 40 years however, he did return to the screen with three further credits towards"
"The Idiot Boy The Idiot Boy is a lyrical poem by William Wordsworth. The poem is of 463 lines and is written in five-line stanzas with a varying rhyme scheme. It was first published in the Lyrical Ballads of 1798, where it appeared between ""The Mad Mother"" and ""Lines Written Near Richmond"". The poem is narrative in form. Set in the countryside, it tells the story of Betty Foy and the disabled son she loves. Foy's neighbor Susan is sick; Foy has no choice but to send her son into the nearby village to fetch the doctor. She places him"
"The Rich Boy ""The Rich Boy"" is a short story by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. It was included in his 1926 collection ""All the Sad Young Men. ""The Rich Boy"" originally appeared in two parts, in the January and February 1926 issues of ""Redbook"". Fitzgerald wrote ""The Rich Boy"" in 1924, in Capri, while awaiting publication of ""The Great Gatsby"". He revised it in his apartment at 14 Rue de Tilsitt in Paris the following spring, at what he described as a period of ""1000 parties and no work."" By May 28, 1925, he wrote his literary agent, Harold"
"A Boy and His Dog (1946 film) A Boy and His Dog is a 1946 American Technicolor short drama film directed by LeRoy Prinz. It won an Academy Award at the 19th Academy Awards in 1947 for Best Short Subject (Two-Reel). Short-story author Samuel A. Derieux who died twenty-four years earlier, in 1922, received story credit for the film, suggesting to some the expectation that he wrote a work with the title ""A Boy and His Dog"". However, a plot summary for the film, attributed to David Glagovsky, closely parallels Derieux's short story ""The Trial in Tom Belcher's Store"", suggesting"
"The Ugly Little Boy ""The Ugly Little Boy"" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov. The story first appeared in the September 1958 issue of ""Galaxy Science Fiction"" under the title ""Lastborn"", and was reprinted under its current title in the 1959 collection ""Nine Tomorrows"". The story deals with a ""Homo neanderthalensis"" child which is brought to the future by means of time travel. Robert Silverberg later expanded it into a novel with the same title published in 1992 (also published as ""Child of Time"" in the UK). Asimov has said that this was his second"
"World War II. On his mother's side Peter is the grandson of Herbert Morrison, the London County Council Leader and Labour Cabinet Minister in the Attlee ministry. Mandelson attended The Garden Suburb School and between 1965 and 1972 Hendon County Grammar School. In 1966 he appeared on stage with the local amateur theatre group, the Hampstead Garden Suburb Dramatic Society, as the eponymous lead in ""The Winslow Boy"". From 1973 to 1976 he read Philosophy, Politics and Economics at St Catherine's College, Oxford. In his teenage years, he was a member of the Young Communist League, but later became a"
"The Englishman's Boy The Englishman's Boy is a novel by Guy Vanderhaeghe, published in 1996 by McClelland and Stewart, which won the Governor General's Award for English language fiction in 1996 and was nominated for the Giller Prize. It deals with the events of the Cypress Hills Massacre (1873) as told 50 years later to a young screenwriter in Hollywood by the last living survivor. On March 2, 2008, ""The Englishman's Boy"" premiered as a made-for-television film on CBC with a budget of $11.7 million. The film won six Gemini Awards: Best Dramatic Mini-Series; John N. Smith as director; Nicholas"
"The Silent Boy The Silent Boy was written by Lois Lowry and was published in 2003. Categorized as both a young adult novel and historical fiction, ""The Silent Boy"" is set in a 20th-century farm community. The story was inspired by a pile of photos that Lowry found and which are interspersed throughout the narrative. The story is told by Katy Thatcher, the young daughter of a small-town physician whose heart is softened by a local boy with a mental condition disabling him from speaking. In 2008, Greg Gunning adapted Lois Lowry's novel into a play ""The Silent Boy"". The"
"he put North's name forward. North landed the role of Ronnie Winslow in ""The Winslow Boy"", a drama based on a cause célèbre of 1908 when George Archer-Shee, a 13-year-old schoolboy, was expelled from Osborne Naval College after being accused of stealing and cashing a Postal Order for five shillings (25p) that had been sent to a fellow pupil. The film was a high-profile production starring some of the most respected names in British film and theatre, including Robert Donat, Cedric Hardwicke and Margaret Leighton. The film proved to be a box-office success and North's performance was widely admired, notably"
"the film-makers drew on the published (and once celebrated) story, but gave the film a title Derieux need not ever have considered. A Boy and His Dog (1946 film) A Boy and His Dog is a 1946 American Technicolor short drama film directed by LeRoy Prinz. It won an Academy Award at the 19th Academy Awards in 1947 for Best Short Subject (Two-Reel). Short-story author Samuel A. Derieux who died twenty-four years earlier, in 1922, received story credit for the film, suggesting to some the expectation that he wrote a work with the title ""A Boy and His Dog"". However,"
"for the play ""The Winslow Boy"" by Terence Rattigan which has twice been the basis of films. He was the son of Martin Archer-Shee and his second wife Helen Treloar. His father was a banker and grandson of the painter Sir Martin Archer Shee. His half-brother was Martin Archer-Shee. The actor Robert Bathurst is his great nephew. In January 1908 Archer-Shee became a cadet at the Royal Naval College, Osborne, at Osborne House on the Isle of Wight. The college, which was part of the estate of the late Queen Victoria, educated and trained 14- to 16-year-olds in their first"
"desperately to be cast against type as Bill Sikes in David Lean's ""Oliver Twist"" (1948), but Lean thought him wrong for the part and cast Robert Newton instead. Donat played the title role in ""The Winslow Boy"" (1948), a popular adaptation of the Terence Rattigan play. Donat and Asherson reprised their stage roles in the film version of ""The Cure for Love"" (1949). His only film as director, its production was affected by his ill health. The film's soundtrack had to be re-recorded after shooting was completed because Donat's asthma had severely affected his voice. Modestly received by a reviewer"
"Farmer Boy Farmer Boy is a children's historical novel written by Laura Ingalls Wilder and published in 1933. It was the second-published one in the ""Little House"" series but it is not related to the first, which that of the third directly continues. Thus the later ""Little House on the Prairie"" is sometimes called the second one in the series, or the second volume of ""the Laura Years"". The novel is based on the childhood of Wilder's husband, Almanzo Wilder, who grew up in the 1860s near the town of Malone, New York. It covers roughly one year of his"
"was a friend of Spike Milligan's junior officer, Lieutenant Tony Goldsmith, who was killed in the Battle of Longstop Hill, whilst on observation post duty. Rattigan wrote an obituary of his friend and sent it to ""The Times"". A copy of it is in """"Rommel?"" ""Gunner Who?"""", one of Milligan's war memoirs. After the war, Rattigan alternated between comedies and dramas, establishing himself as a major playwright: the most famous of which were ""The Winslow Boy"" (1946), ""The Browning Version"" (1948), ""The Deep Blue Sea"" (1952), and ""Separate Tables"" (1954). He believed in understated emotions and craftsmanship, which was deemed"
"some definite and perhaps terrible abnormality which he has agreed to conceal. The Rich Boy ""The Rich Boy"" is a short story by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. It was included in his 1926 collection ""All the Sad Young Men. ""The Rich Boy"" originally appeared in two parts, in the January and February 1926 issues of ""Redbook"". Fitzgerald wrote ""The Rich Boy"" in 1924, in Capri, while awaiting publication of ""The Great Gatsby"". He revised it in his apartment at 14 Rue de Tilsitt in Paris the following spring, at what he described as a period of ""1000 parties and"
"Royal Mail decided to introduce a series of gift postal orders. These have been retained. Since then, the Royal Mail has introduced a series of postal orders which can be used for purchases at Argos stores, however these have since been withdrawn. The 1946 play ""The Winslow Boy"" by Terence Rattigan, and the two subsequent films based on it, features the story of a schoolboy trying to clear his name over the theft of a five shilling postal order. The story was loosely based on the real life George Archer-Shee case. Postal orders are now becoming increasingly popular as a"
"He was 69. At the time of his death, Winslow was sharing his home with about 25 cats. His friends hoped to find Winslow's pets adoptive homes through the local area animal advocacy group, Forgotten Felines. A memorial service was held in Petaluma, California in July 2015, with burial plans with military honors at the Sacramento Valley National Cemetery, to follow. George Winslow George ""Foghorn"" Winslow (May 3, 1946 – June 13, 2015), born George Karl Wentzlaff, was an American child actor of the 1950s known for his stentorian voice and deadpan demeanor. He appeared in several films, some opposite"
"The School Boy ""The School Boy"" is a 1789 poem by William Blake and published as a part of his poetry collection entitled ""Songs of Experience"". These poems were later added with Blake's ""Songs of Innocence"" to create the entire collection entitled ""Songs of Innocence and of Experience Shewing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul."" This collection included poems such as ""The Tyger,"" ""The Little Boy Lost,"" ""Infant Joy,"" and ""The Shepherd (Blake)."" These poems are illustrated with colorful artwork created by Blake first in 1789. The first printing in 1789 consisted of sixteen copies. None of the"
"his career in films by reading scripts for Gaumont-British. He then turned to screenwriting in 1939 for the British film industry and eventually became a producer. He was appointed managing director of Two Cities Films, and later formed his own production company with his brother, Dimitri de Grunwald in 1946. De Grunwald contributed to the scripts of many of his productions, including ""The Winslow Boy"" (1948) and ""The Holly and the Ivy"" (1952). Most of his films were British productions, although in the 1960s, invited by MGM, he went to the United States where he produced several films, then returned"
"Glamour Boy (film) Glamour Boy is a 1941 American comedy film directed by Ralph Murphy and written by Val Burton, F. Hugh Herbert and Bradford Ropes. The film stars Jackie Cooper, Susanna Foster, Walter Abel, Darryl Hickman, Ann Gillis, William Demarest and Jackie Searl. The film was released on December 5, 1941, by Paramount Pictures. Former child star Tiny Barlow is all grown up now but desperate to regain his old fame. He grabs credit for landing aspiring actress Joan Winslow a part that was intended for bigger star Brenda Lee, then tries to persuade studio head A. J. Colder"
"Laughing Boy (novel) Laughing Boy is a 1929 novel by Oliver La Farge about the struggles of the Navajo in Southwestern United States to reconcile their culture with that of the United States. It won the Pulitzer Prize in 1930. It was adapted as a film of the same name, released in 1934. The novel is set about 1914, when the first motorized vehicle was driven into Indian Country. It concerns a boy named Laughing Boy who seeks to become an adult who can be respected among his Navajo tribe. They live in a place known as ""T'o Tlakai."" He"
"The Little Drummer Boy ""The Little Drummer Boy"" (originally known as ""Carol of the Drum"") is a popular Christmas song written by the American classical music composer and teacher Katherine Kennicott Davis in 1941. First recorded in 1951 by the Trapp Family Singers, the song was further popularized by a 1958 recording by the Harry Simeone Chorale; the Simeone version was re-released successfully for several years and the song has been recorded many times since. In the lyrics the singer relates how, as a poor young boy, he was summoned by the Magi to the Nativity of Jesus. Without a"
"of Arthur Ransome, describing the school holiday adventures of children of active, adventurous families, centred on outdoor activity and a vivid landscape soaked in imagination. Ransome had boats and Windermere, ""The Far-Distant Oxus"" had ponies and the moors. Whitlock sent the manuscript to Ransome in March 1937; he in turn brought it to his publisher Jonathan Cape, saying that he had ""the best children's book of 1937"" for him. Cape published the book in the same format as ""Swallows and Amazons"", and persuaded Ransome to write the introduction. The book, with illustrations by Whitlock, was indeed successful; contemporary reviewers were"
"works: Adaptations of Roald Dahl's books for children: Other adaptations of English authors of children's literature: David Wood (actor) David Wood, OBE (born 21 February 1944 in Sutton, Surrey, England) is an actor and writer whom ""The Times"" called ""the National Children's Dramatist"". Along with John Gould, he founded the Whirligig Theatre, a touring children's theatre company. He was educated at Chichester High School for Boys and Worcester College, Oxford. Wood has been an actor, composer, producer, director, lyric writer, magician, author, and playwright. His most famous story, ""The Gingerbread Man"" (1976), has been all across the world since its"
"Lost Son (novel) Lost Son is a novel by M. Allen Cunningham, published in May 2007 by Unbridled Books. It is about Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926), the famous poet of the Duino Elegies and author of Letters to a Young Poet. ""Lost Son"" spans Western Europe from 1875 to 1917, depicting Rilke's life from birth to age 42. The poet is shown as child, lover, husband, father, protégé, misfit soldier, and lifelong wanderer. The novel explores Rilke's relationships with his parents, his wife Clara Westhoff and their daughter Ruth, the painter Paula Modersohn-Becker, the French sculptor Auguste Rodin, and Lou"