The Wind and the Lion is now owned by Warners in the US (it's a Columbia title in the rest of the world). Young Winston is a bit problematic - the DVD Sony released in Europe was the heavily cut version (124 minutes at 24fps) rather than the full 157-minute version which ended with a dream sequence where an elderly Churchill is visited by his disappointed father that was the best thing in the film. Sony did release a longer cut in Germany, but that DVD is also missing the final dream scene. Unless Sony have remastered the film in HD from the original cut, it would just disappoint fans of the film.
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