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My Boy Jack

Year:
Duration:
95 min | UK:93 min
Genres:
Biography | Drama | History | War
IMDB rate:
7.3
Director:
Brian Kirk
Awards:
3 wins & 10 nominations
Details
Country: UK
Release Date: 2008-04-20
Filming Locations: Ardmore Studios, Herbert Road, Bray, County Wicklow, Ireland
Cast
Actor
Character
Kim Cattrall
Kim Cattrall
My Boy Jack
David Haig
Rudyard Kipling
Daniel Radcliffe
John Kipling
Carey Mulligan
Elsie Kipling
Julian Wadham
King George V
Martin McCann
Bowe
Richard Dormer
Corporal John O'Leary
Rúaidhrí Conroy
McHugh (as Ruaidhri Conroy)
Laurence Kinlan
Doyle
Ciaran Nolan
Daly
Nick Dunning
Colonel Ferguson
Michael McElhatton
Leo Amery MP
Peter Gowen
H.A Gwynne
Brian de Salvo
Field Marshal 'Bobs' Roberts
Simon Coury
Naval Doctor
Michael Grennell
Commander Egan
Lucy Miller
Mrs. Carter (as Lucy Millar)
Bill Milner
Peter Carter
Sean O'Neil
Mr. Relph (as Sean O'Neill)
Peter Hanly
Major Sparks
Bosco Hogan
Colonel Brooks
Rory Rae
Postboy
Robbie Kay
Arthur Relph
Hannah McCabe
Nurse
Adam Goodwin
Captain Bruce
John-Paul Macleod
Ralph (as John-Paul MacLeod)
Peter O'Meara
Captain Viney
Billy Gibson
Maitland
Fred Ridgeway
Hobdon
Mark Huberman
Dying Soldier
David Heap
Colonel Hayden
Chris McHallem
Mr. Lieuenthal
Jason Maza
Journalist
James Holmes
Photographer
Dean Thompson
Soldier
Robert Earley
Boy in auditorium (uncredited)
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Trivia
Several scenes were shot at the actual Rudyard Kipling estate, Bateman's, where Kipling lived from 1902 until his death.
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Goofs
When Kipling is speaking at the beginning of the film, the Union Jack hanging from the balcony is correctly positioned but the flags behind the podium and the one in front of it are all upside down.
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In the movie the soldiers are taught to fire the Lee-Enfield rifle using their index finger on the trigger. This is incorrect. Guards regiments in the early part of the war were taught to fire 20 aimed rounds per minute. This fast rate of fire was achieved by virtue of the close proximity of the bolt mechanism and the trigger mechanism on the .303 Short Magazine Lee-Enfield rifle. Soldiers in Guards regiments were trained (like the Old Contemptibles) to fire the Lee-Enfield using the middle finger to fire the weapon while the index finger and thumb worked the bolt. The index finger and thumb would keep hold of the bolt THROUGHOUT the firing procedure, thus speeding up the rate of fire considerably. In the movie soldiers are clearly shown releasing the bolt on every shot in order to use the index finger to fire the weapon.
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Many of the photos of wounded men that the Kipling family search through clearly show a WW2 pattern 'Brodie' steel helmet. Not only is a WW2 steel helmet wrong, ANY steel helmet is wrong for late 1915 as steel helmets weren't issued to British troops until 1916.
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Quotes
Rudyard Kipling: Have you news of my boy Jack?/ Not this tide./ When d'you think that he'll come back?/ Not with this wind blowing, and this tide./ Has any one else had word of him?/ Not this tide./ For what is sunk will hardly swim, Not with this wind blowing, and this tide./ Oh, dear, what comfort can I find?/ None this tide,/ Nor any tide,/ Except he did not shame his kind-/ Not even with that wind blowing, and that tide./ Then hold your head up all the more,/ This tide,/ And every tide;/ Because he was the son you bore,/ And gave to that wind blowing and that tide!
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Rudyard Kipling: [on why the British Empire must fight] You see, we have built up a family - a family of nations - and it must be protected. That is why Jack must fight! To protect the family!
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McHugh: [the last of Jack's soldiers are about to go over the trench and take the enemy base] I am not fucking going anywhere!
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