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The Virgin Queen
From 20th Century Fox
CinemaScope spectacularly spreads before you the velvet cape and violent age of Sir Walter Raleigh and The Virgin Queen.
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Sir Walter Raleigh overcomes court intrigue to win favor with the Queen in order to get financing for a proposed voyage to the New World.
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Directed by Henry Koster
Richard ToddSir Walter Raleigh
Bette DavisQueen Elizabeth I
Joan CollinsBeth Throgmorton
Jay RobinsonChadwick
Herbert MarshallLord Leicester
Dan O'HerlihyLord Derry
Robert DouglasSir Christopher Hatton
Romney BrentFrench Ambassador
Leslie ParrishAnne
Lisa DanielsMary
Gertrude AstorLady-in-Waiting - 2nd Group
Rod TaylorCpl. GwilymImages · 7
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CinemaSerfNov 14, 2022
Historically, it is safe to say that Elizabeth I and Sir Walter Raleigh didn't always get on, but I am not sure their relationship was ever quite this verbose. This is a good enough looking melodrama with Bette Davis and Richard Todd out to enrich England (and themselves) co-starring Joan Collins as the suitably "pathetic" lady in waiting who falls for Raleigh - and in so doing they both earn the enmity of a jealous queen. Herbert Marshall tries to bring a little weight to th… Read more
e proceedings; Dan O'Herlihy a little humour but ultimately we are left with a colourful, but pretty mundane, wordy, historical costume drama with the odd flash of character from Davis.