In 1941 Donat's MGM contract was relaxed to enable him to film The Young Mr.Pitt for Twentieth Century Fox. In what was essentially a propaganda film, Donat's Pitt was presented as the Winston Churchill of his age, inciting the country against an earlier Hitler.As we know that Churchill was the most successful PM at war in British history,and Pitt also was an outstanding war minister for his steadfast and brave battle against Napoleon,that Churchill worshiped Pitt in his famous work A History of the English-Speaking Peoples.This film was biographic,which began from a boyish Pitt before his father's fall in the House of the Lords and death in 1778,and drew a sketch including his brilliant earlier years and tough later times in political life,also paid attention to this great man's personalities and private life.Sir John Mills played Pitt's intimate lifetime friend,the sacred politician William Wilberforce,who was the greatest abolitionist followed by Clarkson,Thornton,Hannah More and Pitt's brother-in-law Eliot...Robert Morley played Pitt's rival in the House of Commons,Charles James Fox,one of the leading politicians during 18 century.
