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"**The Winslow Boy**"
"The Winslow Boy"
DuPont Show of the Month episode
Episode no.	Season 2; Episode 3
Directed by	Alex Segal
Written by	Sumner Locke Elliott (TV adaptation), Terence Rattigan (underlying play)
Original air date	November 13, 1958
Running time	1:25:36
Guest appearances
	Fredric March as Arthur Winslow; Florence Eldridge as Grace Winslow; Siobhan McKenna as Catherine Winslow;
Episode chronology
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"The Winslow Boy" was an American television play broadcast by CBS on November 13, 1958, as part of the television series, DuPont Show of the Month. It was based on the play by Terence Rattigan. Alex Segal was the director and David Susskind the producer.^[1] Fredric March starred as Arthur Winslow and was nominated for a Sylvania Award for his performance.

Plot

The play was on the Archer-Shee Case, a famous case heard in 1910. A 14-year-old boy, Ronnie Winslow, is unjustly accused of stealing a five shilling postal order and expelled from the Royal Naval College, Osborne. His father, Arthur Winslow (played by Fredric March) hires a famous solicitor who successfully proves the boy's innocence and clears his name. (The real-life Winslow Boy was subsequently killed in World War I at age 19.)

Cast

The cast included performances by:^[1]

Fredric March as Arthur Winslow
Florence Eldridge as Grace Winslow
Rex Thompson as Ronnie Winslow
Denholm Elliott as John Watherstone
Peter Bathurst (actor)•Peter Bathurst as Desmond Curry
Siobhan McKenna as Catherine Winslow
Noel Willman as Sir Robert Norton
Norah Howard as Violet
John Milligan as Dickie
Guy Spall as Attorney General
Jean Cameron as Postmistress
Pat Nye as Miss Barnes

Production

The production starred Fredric March and his real-life wife Florence Eldridge as the Winslow boy's parents. The program was an adaptation of the play by Terence Ratigan. David Susskind was the producer and Alex Segal the director.^[2]

For his performance as Arthur Winslow, March was nominated for outstanding actor at the 1958 Sylvania Television Awards.^[3]

Reception

In The New York Times, Jack Gould gave the production a positive review.^[4]

Variety wrote "On all counts — acting, directing, adaptation, production — it was stunningly executed; the kind of devotion to a medium (and theatre) that pops up occasionally on a Playhouse 90 or a Hallmark Hall of Fame, but otherwise is pretty much lost to tv."^[5]