By Laurence Senelick
The Winslow Boy, English play by Terence Rattigan (1946). Based on the Archer-Shee case, it concerns a 13-year-old boy expelled from the Royal Naval College for having stolen a 5-shilling postal order. His father stakes everything on hiring the coolly rational Sir Robert Morton to defend his son and wins an acquittal. It was first filmed by Anthony Asquith, with Robert Donat as the Q.C., and remade claustrophobically by David Mamet in 1998 with Jeremy Northam as the Holmesian barrister.
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