#Goodliffe plays Chamberlain as a slightly tired‚ sickly seeming man‚ somewhat detached and perhaps not fully grasping the weight
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Michael Goodliffe as British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain in The Roads to Freedom (BBC, 1970)
#fave spotting#michael goodliffe#the roads to freedom#callan#hunter#neville chamberlain#1970#bbc#classic tv#Goodliffe plays Chamberlain as a slightly tired‚ sickly seeming man‚ somewhat detached and perhaps not fully grasping the weight#of the moment he finds himself in; probably a pretty fair assessment of the real figure‚ who had widely been considered a caretaker pm#but was unexpectedly thrust into a pivotal moment of history (and was indeed tired and sickly; he'd be dead by 1940)#Chamberlain's immediate postwar legacy had been highly negative‚ and he was widely considered culpable for escalating conflict in ww2#by failing to act more quickly or decisively in the crucial moments depicted in Roads to Freedom; Churchill's own memoirs had cemented#public opion of the man as a leader who may have been well intentioned but was fundamentally weak and ineffective‚ blind to Hitler's#strength and unwilling to take a firm stance when one had been required. by 1970 tho‚ when this series was being made‚ there had begun#something of an attempt to rehabilitate Chamberlain's tenure as pm
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