Victoria The Great (1937)

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Laurence Housman's 1935 stage play Victoria Regina, which has served as a showcase for actresses as varied as Helen Hayes and Julie Harris, was adapted for the screen in 1937 as Victoria the Great. Herbert Wilcox was the producer, so no one was surprised and everyone was satisfied when Wilcox cast… More Laurence Housman's 1935 stage play Victoria Regina, which has served as a showcase for actresses as varied as Helen Hayes and Julie Harris, was adapted for the screen in 1937 as Victoria the Great. Herbert Wilcox was the producer, so no one was surprised and everyone was satisfied when Wilcox cast his actress wife, the beloved Anna Neagle, as Queen Victoria. The film repeats the play's episodic approach, tracing Victoria from her 1837 coronation to her Jubilee celebration sixty years later. Ms. Neagle is faultless, if perhaps a bit too self satisfied in this actor-proof role; her best scenes are with Prince Albert, played with finesse by Anton Walbrook. The Jubilee finale was originally filmed in resplendent Technicolor (derided in 1937 as vulgar) though some scattered prints are still processed in black and white. Victoria the Great was also released as Sixty Glorious Years. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

Rating, Runtime: Unrated, 1 hr. 50 min.
Directed By: Herbert Wilcox
Genres: Drama, Action & Adventure, Romance

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Cast

            Anna Neagle as Queen Victoria

            Anton Walbrook as Prince Albert

            Walter Rilia as Prince Ernest

            Mary Morris as Duchess of Kent

            H.B. Warner as Lord Melbourne

            Grete Wegener as Baroness Lehzen

            Felix Aylmer as Lord Palmerston

            C.V. France as Archbishop of Canterbury

            James Dale as Duke of Wellington

            Charles Carson as Sir Robert Peel

            Hubert Harben as Lord Conyngham

            Arthur Young as Mr. Gladstone

            Derrick De Marney as Young Disraeli

            Hugh Miller as Old Disraeli

            Paul Leyssac as Baron Stockmar

            Ivor Barnard as Assassin

            Frank Birch as Sir Charles Dilke

            Lewis Casson as Archbishop of Canterbury

            William Dewhurst as John Bright

            Wyndham Goldie as Cecil Rhodes

            Henry Hallatt as Joseph Chamberlain

            Tom Heslewood as Sir Francis Grant

            Albert Lieven
            
            Moore Marriott
            
            Gordon McLeod as John Brown

            Percy Parsons as Abraham Lincoln

            Joan Young as Miss Pitt

            Paul Henreid as Bit Part

            Miles Malleson as Physician

            Walter Rilla
            
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