Word: rattigan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...London and Broadway stage hit, The Winslow Boy (1946-47), Playwright Terence Rattigan stuck fairly closely to the facts of the Archer-Shee case, while rigging them skillfully for theatrical effect. In the movie version, Scripters Rattigan and Anatole de Grunwald stick too closely to the play. As a result, despite some superior dialogue and top-drawer British acting, the film plods along with more patience than it is likely to find in U.S. moviegoers...
...Arthur Rank's London Films Company has made another first-rate movie. It transforms to the screen Terence Rattigan's successful play about the fight to clear the Winslow boy of unjust forgery and robbery charges which led to expulsion from the Admiralty Naval College...