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Article: BRITAIN'S LAST WARRIOR; Egomaniac, warmonger, reckless and disloyal, Churchill was mistrusted for much of his career. Yet, as last night's stunning BBC film showed, his flaws were the key to making him the greatest war leader in our history.
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- Daily Mail (London)
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- July 13, 2002
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Byline: MAX HASTINGS
IT WAS a triumph: for Albert Finney and Vanessa Redgrave; for writer Hugh Whitemore and director Richard Loncraine; for the BBC. It reminded us how marvellous television can be when it is skilful and intelligent, when the medium does not seek to cheapen and diminish human affairs as it does for, say, 350 days of any calendar year.
'That brought a tear to the eye,' said my wife, after we watched last night's The Gathering Storm. And so it did. The portrait of Winston Churchill in 1935-36, his wilderness years, captured the energy and waywardness, the awesome mastery of language, the melancholy, the wit, warmth and genius of the ...