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. The period costumes were by Cecil Beaton and Elizabeth Haffenden.
William Pitt the Younger, son of a famous politician father, becomes the youngest Prime Minister the United Kingdom has ever known, wins an election on the promise of peace and prosperi...
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The Young Mr Pitt
Film
Directed by
Carol Reed
Sir Carol Reed (30 December 1906 – 25 April 1976) was an English film director, most famous for directing The Third Man, The Agony and the Ecstasy and Oliver!. He won the 1968 Academy Award for Best Director for Oliver!.
The son of actor-producer Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree and his mistress, May...
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- 1 h 58 min