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By Charles Bottage

Updated 18 March 2023

Artist	Allan warren
Credit	Own work
License	cc-by-sa-3.0
Desc	Portrait of Robert Morley
Usage	Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0

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1942 film by Carol Reed

The Young Mr Pitt

Released	1942 (80 years, 10 months ago)

Director	Carol Reed
Genre	biographical film and drama film
Composer	Louis Levy
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Screenwriter	Frank Launder

About The Young Mr Pitt

The Young Mr. Pitt is a 1942 British biographical film of the life of William Pitt the Younger and in particular his struggle against revolutionary France and Napoleon. It was directed by Carol Reed and stars Robert Donat, Robert Morley and John Mills. Made in black-and-white, it was produced by Edward Black and Maurice Ostrer for the British subsidiary of 20th Century Fox.

It was filmed as the Second World War was raging. Similar parallels with the struggle against Hitler's Germany were implied in That Hamilton Woman (aka Lady Hamilton, 1941), made by Alexander Korda in the United States with Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh in the leads.