'King's Speech' Is 'Riddled With Gross Falsifications Of History,' Christopher Hitchens Writes

'King's Speech' Is 'Riddled With Gross Falsifications Of History,' Christopher Hitchens Writes

The King's Speech is an extremely well-made film with a seductive human interest plot, very prettily calculated to appeal to the smarter filmgoer and the latent Anglophile. But it perpetrates a gross falsification of history. One of the very few miscast actors--Timothy Spall as a woefully thin pastiche of Winston Churchill--is the exemplar of this bizarre rewriting. He is shown as a consistent friend of the stuttering prince and his loyal princess and as a man generally in favor of a statesmanlike solution to the crisis of the abdication.

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