Richard Todd

Bette Davis

Joan Collins

Jay Robinson

Herbert Marshall

Dan O'Herlihy

Robert Douglas

Romney Brent

Leslie Parrish

Lisa Daniels

Gertrude Astor

Rod Taylor

Noel Drayton

Mindret Lord

Harry Brown

Henry Koster

Charles G. Clarke

Robert L. Simpson

Leland Fuller

Charles Brackett

Lyle R. Wheeler

Paul S. Fox

Mary Wills

Walter M. Scott

Franz Waxman

Drama

History

Romance

The Virgin Queen

20th Century Fox

United States of America

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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 the 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.

English

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