Talk:Young Winston

Are there not several versions of the ending?

I think once I saw a version which ended with a cut to an older WSC on the balcony with the Royal Family on VE Day (actual newsreel footage from 1945).

Another time (autumn 1997 iirc) they showed a version on telly which ended with his famous "dream" story, in which he dreamed his father's ghost visited him in his studio and assumed his scapegrace son to have become a painter ("Make a living at it, do you?"), then WSC is left chuckling, having not had the heart to tell his bullying father that he had become Prime Minister.Paulturtle (talk) 10:01, 16 May 2013 (UTC)

Production
The film rights for My Early Life were originally sold to Warner Brothers during the Second World War; it's a long and complicated journey from there to Carl Foreman and Columbia Pictures. Lough's book No More Champagne tells much of the story. Mackensen (talk) 17:48, 21 March 2018 (UTC)

Escape
It might be worth checking the film again on this point. In reality he escaped by way of Portuguese East Africa. Does the film clarify this, or does it imply that the freight train crossed directly from Boer-held territory into British-held territory? This would be very unusual in wartime. PatGallacher (talk) 15:01, 1 February 2023 (UTC)


 * 1 hr 55 mins in, when he is hiding down the coalmine, we have a voiceover from the older Winston (so presumably quoting from "My Early Life") saying that he was take a train into Portuguese territory and from thence a ship back to British territory. The Portuguese colonies were much in the news in the early 1970s so I dare say the existence of Mozambique would not have required further explanation to the reasonably well-informed viewer.Paulturtle (talk) 03:44, 2 February 2023 (UTC)