The Winslow case

Movie
German title	The Winslow case
Original title	The Winslow Boy
Country of production	Great Britain
original language	English
Publishing year	1948
length	105 minutes
Age rating	FSK 12
Rod
Director	Anthony Asquith
script	Anatole de Grunwald , Terence Rattigan
production	Anatole de Grunwald
music	William Alwyn
camera	Freddie Young
cut	Gerald Turney-Smith
occupation
Robert Donat : Sir Robert Morton Cedric Hardwicke : Arthur Winslow Basil Radford : Desmond Curry Margaret Leighton : Catherine Winslow Kathleen Harrison : Violet Frank Lawton : John Watherstone Neil North : Ronnie Winslow Jack Watling : Robert Winslow Francis L. Sullivan : District Attorney Marie Lohr : Grace Winslow Mona Washbourne : Miss Barnes Nicholas Hannen : Col. Watherstone Evelyn Roberts : Hamilton MP WA Kelley : Brian O'Rourke Ernest Thesiger : Ridgeley Pierce Stanley Holloway : Comedian Cyril Ritchard : Music Hall Singer

The Winslow Case is a 1948 British drama film directed by Anthony Asquith. The screenplay is based on the 1946 play of the same name by screenwriter Terence Rattigan and based on a true story in 1912. The premiere in Germany took place on October 20, 1949.

action

Ronnie Winslow, 13, is a cadet at Osborne House , the Royal Naval College . He is accused of stealing a postal order from a comrade. The investigative body, which gave the boy no defense, found him guilty. His father Arthur Winslow, a banker, is supposed to take his son out of college. Father Winslow cannot accept the suspicion and the verdict. He and his daughter Catherine do his own research, with help from his friend and lawyer Desmond Curry. Curry immediately meets with England's best defense attorney, Sir Robert Morton, should the case go to court.

The UK government has no interest in any process that would involve the public. But after heated debates in the House of Commons , the government gives in - the case goes to court. Sir Robert Morton can defuse the incriminating evidence, the government withdraws the verdict against Ronnie. The family won, but the price was high: Catherine loses her fiancé, John Watherstone, brother Richard cannot continue his studies at Oxford because the legal costs mean that there is no longer any money for the tuition fees and father Arthur Winslow has lost his health Game set.

Reviews

"Atmospherically dense, very well-acted theater film - a plea for justice and democracy."

- Lexicon of international film

Awards

• In 1949 the film was nominated for the United Nations Award of the British Film Academy Awards .

background

• Prime Minister Herbert Asquith , mentioned in the film , really existed. He was the director's father and British Prime Minister from 1908 to 1916.
• Oscar winner Robert Donat (awarded in 1940) made only four more feature films after this film until 1958.
• Neil North also starred in the 1999 remake, this time as First Lord of the Admiralty.
• Cinematographer Freddie Young won three Oscars in his later career: in 1963, 1966 and 1971, and sound engineer John Cox once in 1963.

Further films

• 1958: The Winslow Boy - British television film with Peter Cushing
• 1961: The Winslow Case - German TV film with Paul Dahlke , Alice Treff and Peter Pasetti
• 1990: The Winslow Boy - British television film with Ian Richardson and Emma Thompson
• 1999: Winslow Boy - British motion picture directed by David Mamet

Soundtrack

• William Alwyn : The Winslow Boy. Suite . On: The Film Music of William Alwyn, Vol. 2 . Chandos, Colchester 2001, sound carrier no. CHAN 9959 - digital re-recording of excerpts from the film music by the BBC Philharmonic under the direction of Rumon Gamba

literature

• Terence Rattigan : The Winslow Case. Acting (Original title: The Winslow Boy ). German stage arrangement by Alfred H. Unger . Kiepenheuer, Berlin 1980, 182 pp. [Stage manuscript]

Web links

• The Winslow in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ cf. Lexicon of International Films 2000/2001 (CD-ROM)