The Winslow Boy (1999 film) case coming to court. On the fourth day of the trial, the Solicitor General accepted that Archer-Shee was innocent, and ultimately the family was paid compensation. George Archer-Shee died in the First World War and his name is inscribed on the war memorial in the village of Woodchester in Gloucestershire where his parents lived. The film was released on DVD in the United States in February 2000. The special features include an audio commentary by director/screenwriter David Mamet and cast members, Jeremy Northam, Nigel Hawthorne and Rebecca Pidgeon. The DVD also includes theatrical trailers for "The Winslow Boy" and "The
Martin Archer Shee and a second part followed in 1809. Lord Byron spoke well of it in his "English Bards and Scotch Reviewers". Shee published another small volume of verse in 1814, entitled "The Commemoration of Sir Joshua Reynolds, and other Poems", but this was less successful. He also produced a tragedy, "Alasco", set in Poland. The play was accepted at Covent Garden, but was refused a licence, on the grounds that it contained treasonable allusions, and Shee angrily resolved to make his appeal to the public. He carried out his threat in 1824, but "Alasco" was still on the list of unacted