The Young Mr. Pitt (1942)

Starring Geoffrey Atkins, Robert Donat, Jean Cadell, Robert Morley, Phyllis Calvert, John
Mills, Ian McLean, Herbert Lom
Directed by Carol Reed

Print: black/white
Runtime: 118 min.
Genre: drama
Print Quality: B

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...