Word: blenheim
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will be buried near his father and mother in a small rural churchyard in Bladon, 70 miles northwest of London, on the Blenheim estate where he was born
...voice heard whether in power in the Commons, out of office from Chartwell, or in War over static-filled radio. And he prevailed. Despite the stooped shoulders, the squat figure, the pudgy features, we see him in a grand tableau of English history. He belongs on the field at Blenheim, on the deck of the Victory, in a hushed Commons because he believed he belonged there...
...genuine color interludes, they are used imaginatively throughout. While Orson Welles, the narrator, describes Churchill's childhood, the color camera follows a small boy through Blenheim Castle; as he describes Churchill's school days, the screen fills not with stilted Dauguerrotypes but with color shots of Harrow boys as they are today, unchanged from 75 years ago. When Churchill is summoned by the King to form a government in 1940, a Rolls-Royce drives up to Buckingham Palace in another color scene. Even though newsreel clip of the real thing. Churchill himself, as senting what eyewitnesses saw than would...
...best things in The Finest Hours, however, are not the all too familiar history but the gentle, colorful, warmly intimate views of Churchill's resting places: awesome Blenheim Palace, where he was born; his country home. Chartwell. a rambling gallery of Churchillian art set within a walled garden; Chequers, the Buckinghamshire retreat of British Prime Ministers; and the simple, spartan bedroom 70 ft. below Downing Street where Churchill growled through some of the darkest hours England has ever known...
...biographer, British M.P. Michael Foot, were romantics. Churchill's romanticism was invested in the manifest glories of the English past and Sevan's in the evangelical dream of a new Jerusalem in a classless England of the future. But the boy who was born in Blenheim Palace and the boy born in a collier's cottage were well matched when history brought them face to face in the House of Commons. They were the greatest parliamentarians of the century...