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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Title: The Virgin Queen (1955)
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| Complete credited cast: | |||
| Bette Davis | ... | Queen Elizabeth I | |
| Richard Todd | ... | Sir Walter Raleigh | |
| Joan Collins | ... | Beth Throgmorton | |
| Jay Robinson | ... | Chadwick | |
| Herbert Marshall | ... | Lord Leicester (Robert Dudley) | |
| Dan O'Herlihy | ... | Lord Derry | |
| Robert Douglas | ... | Sir Christopher Hatton | |
| Romney Brent | ... | French Ambassador | |
| Leslie Parrish | ... | Anne (as Marjorie Hellen) | |
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Lisa Daniels | ... | Mary |
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Sir Walter Raleigh gains audience with Queen Elizabeth I and soon wins her over to his way of thinking. He wants ships to sail and make a name for England. A young ward of the court, Beth Throgmorton, is strongly attracted to Raleigh and returns the attraction. But soon the Queen shows her desires and he bends in order to achieve his goal of ships. But still he loves Beth. Written by McGinty <McGinty@aol.com>
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queen elizabeth i | year 1581 | knight | elizabethan era | queen of england |Taglines:
CinemaScope spectacularly spreads before you the velvet cape and violent age of Sir Walter Raleigh and The Virgin Queen.Parents Guide:
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22 July 1955 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Raleigh and the Virgin Queen See more »Filming Locations:
Stage 8, 20th Century Fox Studios - 10201 Pico Blvd., Century City, Los Angeles, California, USAEdit
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$1,600,000 (estimated)Company Credits
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Sir Walter Raleigh: I've already launched on it, Ma'am. My next campaign is you.
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Rod Taylor appears, uncredited, in a very short scene. He is ostensibly playing a Welshman, given his character's name, but his accent is completely unidentifiable. See more »Goofs
At the concluding scene of the movie, Queen Elizabeth looks through her window with a telescope, an invention of 1608, five years after her death in 1603. See more »Quotes
Queen Elizabeth I: And what is your next campaign?Sir Walter Raleigh: I've already launched on it, Ma'am. My next campaign is you.
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This one should have been a lot better, considering the pedigree of its cast and the professionals behind the camera, including the always reliable Franz Waxman, contributing a score that must have sounded wonderful when those theaters equipped with stereophonic sound systems played this costumer during its first release.
But director Henry Koster's touch is particularly pedestrian in this one. (Note how he stages the legendary scene when Sir Walter Raleigh spreads his cape across a muddy patch for Queen Elizabeth to glide over it without soiling her royal hem. Tossed off as if it weren't worth showing!) And the script seems to be regurgitating all those well-worn cliches about a love and sex-starved Queen Elizabeth I surrounded by male courtiers who have only their various personal ambitions to keep them apparently interested in her feminine needs.
Bette does her best (and even supposedly consented to shaving herself bald for the role!) and Richard Todd and a young and lovely Joan Collins convince as a couple willing to risk the frustrated Queen's wrath to consummate their love. And it's always a pleasure to see actors like Dan O'Herlihy and Herbert Marshall in support, despite how woefully little is made of their talents.
Beware the VHS version, a "formatted" desecration of the original 2.55:1 CinemaScope ratio. For no other reason this handsomely mounted production deserves to be given the widescreen DVD treatment.