The Prime Minister

I certainly hope no one is using this propagandistic biographical film about Benjamin Disraeli as a short cut for a term paper. So much of his interesting story is left out. Still John Gielgud as Disraeli and Diana Wynyard as... Read more at imdb.com

This film was produced in 1941, and the feeling one gets when watching it that you are being educated in how to be loyal to England. A loose portrayal of the life and career of Benjamin Disraeli, culminating in him... Read more at imdb.com

"The Prime Minister" is loosely based on the life and career of British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli. The film first portrays his earlier life and career and then rapidly transitions to his time as Prime Minister.The performances in this film... Read more at imdb.com

A stodgy love story, loosely tied in to the life of Disraeli. One of those films where it starts out with the main stars as young lovers, and then you get a few paragraphs of text that fill in 30... Read more at imdb.com

This film had one serious flaw. It did not mention even once that Disraeli was Jewish. Almost the whole history of Disraeli's personal and political life was a history of struggling to overcome Anti-Semitism and struggling to be accepted into... Read more at imdb.com

Watching this dismal movie was like being forced to watch educational programmes at school - dull, desperately boring, and seemingly interminable. Having said that, the movie seems to speed through Disraeli's career; episodic to such a degree that people age... Read more at imdb.com

Obviously, this film was designed to bolster the morale of the Brits at the time of the Blitz, but couldn't Warner Brothers have been more careful with the flow of the picture? It begins, as many biopics do, by reducing... Read more at imdb.com

Ok, so the acting was rather theatrical and the message rather patriotic. But, like Henry VI, it was a propaganda war film to stir the spirit of the English people in the height of the second world war. It didn't... Read more at imdb.com

New Delhi, Sat, 19 Jul 2008 M Shamsur Rabb Khan As the D-day (22 July) nears, the hot pursuit for either saving the government or pushing it to fall is on the peak, with buying and selling of MPs are ... Full Article

After meeting a delegation of Catholic Bishops Conference of India along with Archbishop of Delhi, the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday evening speaks to Orissa Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik to take immediate steps to stop violence and restore normalcy. ... Full Article

Turkey's highest court pulled the country back from the brink when it narrowly rejected calls for the ruling party to be shut down and its leaders banned from politics for allegedlyundermining the secular state. ... Full Article

If he had been allowed to go ahead with the plans for administrative reform he announced at his first press conference as PM, he would have made drastic cuts in the money government spends on itself and just this little ... Full Article

Sometimes something is said about you, and you are not quite sure whether to take it as a compliment or an insult. Two prominent journalists, whom I respect very much, mentioned me in connection with the Prime Minister. Akiva Eldar ... Full Article