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Young Winston (1972)

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• In the scene at the Windsor racetrack, you can see part of Michael Caine's backyard and the roof of the house he owned over Robert Shaw's shoulder.
  
  
• Simon ward was 2rd choice for Winston Churchill.
  
  
• The first film of Nigel Hawthorne.
  
  

• Robert Shaw was 3rd choice for Lord Churchill.
  
  
• This was the first of five films that Richard Attenborough and Anthony Hopkins worked together on. They later worked together on Magic (1978), A Bridge Too Far (1977), Chaplin (1992), and Shadowlands (1993).
  
  
• Robert Hardy who plays the Headmaster later went on to portray Winston Churchill in four separate films; "Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years" (1981), "The Woman He Loved" (1988), "War and Remembrance" (1988) and "Bomber Harris" (1989).
  
  

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