My Boy Jack on PBS

My Boy Jack was a British ITV production that made its way to American TV via PBS’s Masterpiece Theater. Daniel Radcliffe plays the part of Rudyard Kipling’s son Jack. The cast is impressive and it is interesting to see Harry Potter looking a bit like Hitler wearing a uniform and a mustache. World War I was a gruesome and bloody war in which the British battle plans involved marching as many soldiers as they could into German machine gun fire. Rudyard Kipling is so keen on this course of action that he is bound and determined to put his own…

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