Was The Winslow Boy a true story?

The movie is based on a 1940s play by Terence Rattigan, inspired by a true story. It involves the Winslow family of South Kensington, London–the father a retired bank official, wife pleased with their life, adult daughter a suffragette, older son at Oxford, younger son a cadet at the Royal Naval Academy.

Who stole the money in The Winslow Boy?

George Archer-Shee
George Archer-Shee (6 May 1895 – 31 October 1914) was a Royal Navy cadet whose case of whether he stole a five shilling postal order was decided in the High Court of Justice in 1910.

Who was guilty in The Winslow Boy?

He is accused of the theft of a postal order for five shillings (£0.25). An internal inquiry, which grants him no chance of defence, finds him guilty and his father, Arthur Winslow (Sir Cedric Hardwicke), is requested to remove his son from the college.

Who wrote the play The Winslow Boy?

Terence RattiganThe Winslow Boy / Playwright

Is there a movie of the Winslow Boy?

The Winslow Boy (1948 film) The Winslow Boy is a 1948 British film adaptation of Terence Rattigan’s play The Winslow Boy. It was made by De Grunwald Productions and distributed by the British Lion Film Corporation. It was directed by Anthony Asquith and produced by Anatole de Grunwald with Teddy Baird as associate producer.

Is the Winslow Boy by Robert Donat good?

The Winslow Boy is based on a true incident from back in the beginning of the last century and it has good performances all around. Cyril Ritchard and Stanley Holloway do a couple of music hall numbers to capture the spirit of the time and are welcome indeed. Still The Winslow Boy is Robert Donat’s show and a good show it is.

Who was Sir Robert Morton in the Winslow Boy?

Sir Robert Morton in real life was Sir Edward Carson, an Irish Tory politician and brilliantly histrionic lawyer who successfully defended the boy, who was the half-brother of a fellow MP. Carson later married a much younger woman, though not the boy’s sister. The Winslow Boy himself was killed during the First World War.

What is your review of the Winslow Boy by Rattigan?

‘The Winslow Boy’ is along with ‘The Browning Version’ and ‘Separate Tables’ one of Rattigan’s best, containing all of the above and also showing his gift of giving his principal characters an emotional and psychological complexity in a real life situation (if not quite as much as ‘The Browning Version’).