The Omen Archives - Richard M. Langworth

Churchill Bio-Pics: The Trouble with the Movies

10 August 2017 Comments 2 Comments

“The Trouble with the Movies” was published in the American Thinker, 5 August 2017.

David Franco, reviewing the film Churchill, starring Brian Cox, raises questions he says everyone should be asking. “Isn’t the ability to accept one’s mistakes part of what makes a man a good leader? …. To what extent should we rely [on] past experiences in order to minimize mistakes in the future? These are the questions that make a bad movie like Churchill worth seeing.”

Well, I won’t be seeing this bad movie. Described as “perverse fantasy” by historian Andrew Roberts, it joins a recent spate of sloppy Churchill bio-pics that favor skewed caricatures over historical fact.…

“Jennie” with Lee Remick Revived on CD

18 June 2010 Comments 0 Comments

We are happily informed that one of the finest-ever films about Winston Churchill, featuring the late Lee Remick as his mother in Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill, is now available on CD from Amazon. It was originally a television documentary, “The life and loves of Jennie Churchill,” broadcast on ITV in Britain and PBS in the USA in 1974.

On 4 May 1991 the International Churchill Society held a dinner for Lee, then dying of cancer, on the Queen Mary in Long Beach, to present her with our Blenheim Award for notable contributions to our knowledge of the life and times of Winston Churchill.…