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.^[1] The period costumes were by Cecil Beaton and Elizabeth Haffenden.

Cast

• Robert Donat - Pitt
• Jean Cadell - Mrs. Sparry
• Robert Morley - Charles James Fox
• Phyllis Calvert - Eleanor Eden
• Raymond Lovell - George the Third
• Agnes Lauchlan - Queen Charlotte
• John Mills - William Wilberforce
• Felix Aylmer - Lord North
• Ian McLean - Dundas
• Max Adrian - Richard Brinsley Sheridan
• A. Bromley Davenport - Sir Evan Nepean
• Herbert Lom^[2] - Napoleon
• Stephen Haggard - Horatio Nelson
• Albert Lieven - Talleyrand

Synopsis

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.

Notes

1. ↑ Similar parallels were drawn between Napoleonic and contemporary history in the film That Hamilton Woman.
2. ↑ In his first English-speaking role

External links

• http://www.britmovie.co.uk/directors/c_reed/filmography/019.html