The Finest Hours

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The Finest Hours is a superior Winston Churchill documentary, narrated by Orson Welles. Much of the film plays like an affectionate eulogy, though Churchill was not quite dead yet in 1964. Filmmaker Peter Baylis serves up an excellent amalgam of family photos, interviews, and newsreel footage. Refreshingly, the film does not skimp on Churchill's personal quirks and private demons. The Finest Hours has in recent years become a perennial of "cultural" cable-TV services.

Rating:

NR
Genre:

Documentary, Special Interest
Directed By:

Peter Baylis
On Disc/Streaming:

Mar 10, 2009
Runtime:

110 minutes
Studio:

Columbia Pictures

Cast

Richard Widmark

Orson Welles
as Narrator

Winston Churchill
as Narrator

George Baker
as Lord Randolph

Faith Brook
as Lady Randolph

Patrick Wymark
as Churchill

Critic Reviews for The Finest Hours

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Documentaries, by their very nature, are informative, seldom entertaining. That there is entertainment in The Finest Hours, a very informative documentary, is to the credit of both the film's subject and the men responsible for the motion picture.

Jan 17, 2019 | Full Review…

Tony Mastroianni
Cleveland Press