 One bit of business that failed to survive the transition from stage  to film: Pitts drinking. While in the film George III briefly  mentions Pitts drinking habits to his wife, on stage, as Alan  Bennett puts it, "Pitt takes a swig from a hip flask, such a regular  feature of his behaviour it is not noted in the stage directions."  (The historical Pitt was considered a heavy drinker even by  eighteenth