- Film Review
- Reviewed By David Parkinson
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2 out of 5
Sixteen years after she played Elizabeth I in The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex, Bette Davis reprised the role of the last Tudor in this colourful but rather tepid melodrama. She gets to chew a little scenery as she realises that Richard Todd's Walter Raleigh is in love with lady-in-waiting Joan Collins, but the history lesson script keeps her on a short leash. Todd comes across as a sulky boy who isn't allowed to play in the Americas rather than an ambitious man of action, and his romance with the demure Collins is soggier than a cloak over a puddle.
Plot Summary
Historical drama starring Bette Davis, Richard Todd and Joan Collins. While trying to persuade Queen Elizabeth I to support an expedition to the Americas, Walter Raleigh becomes involved with a lady-in-waiting.
Cast and crew
Cast
- Queen Elizabeth I
- Bette Davis
- Sir Walter Raleigh
- Richard Todd
- Beth Throgmorton
- Joan Collins
- Chadwick
- Jay Robinson
- Lord Leicester
- Herbert Marshall
- Lord Derry
- Dan O'Herlihy
- Sir Christopher Hatton
- Robert Douglas
- French ambassador
- Romney Brent
- Anne
- Leslie Parrish
- Mary
- Lisa Daniels
Crew
- Director
- Henry Koster
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