Victoria the Great

Victoria the Great

Directed by	Herbert Wilcox
Produced by	Herbert Wilcox
Written by	Miles Malleson Charles de Grandcourt
Starring	Anna Neagle Anton Walbrook Walter Rilla H.B. Warner Mary Morris
Music by	Anthony Collins
Cinematography	William V. Skall Freddie Young
Edited by	Jill Irving
Distributed by	RKO Radio Pictures
Release dates	16 September 1937 (1937-09-16) (UK) 12 November 1937 (1937-11-12) (US) ^[1]
Running time	112 min
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Victoria the Great is a 1937 British historical film directed by Herbert Wilcox and starring Anna Neagle, Anton Walbrook and Walter Rilla. The film biography of Queen Victoria concentrating initially on the early years of her reign with her marriage to Prince Albert and her subsequent rule after Albert's death in 1861. The film was released in the year of King George VI's coronation, which was also the centennial of Victoria's own accession to the throne. The movie was so successful that a sequel appeared the following year, Sixty Glorious Years.

Main cast

Anna Neagle as Queen Victoria
Anton Walbrook as Prince Albert
Walter Rilla as Prince Ernest
H.B. Warner as Lord Melbourne
Mary Morris as Duchess of Kent
James Dale as Duke of Wellington
Felix Aylmer as Lord Palmerston
Charles Carson as Sir Robert Peel
Gordon McLeod as John Brown
C.V. France as Archbishop of Canterbury
Arthur Young as William Gladstone
Greta Schröder as Baroness Lehzen
Paul Leyssac as Baron Stockmar
Derrick De Marney as Younger Disraeli
Hugh Miller as Older Disraeli
Percy Parsons as President Abraham Lincoln
Hubert Harben as Lord Conyngham
Henry Hallett as Joseph Chamberlain

References

↑ "Victoria the Great: Detail View". American Film Institute. Retrieved April 11, 2014.

Bibliography

The Great British Films, pp39–41, Jerry Vermilye, 1978, Citadel Press, ISBN 0-8065-0661-X

External links

Victoria the Great at the Internet Movie Database
Victoria the Great at AllMovie
Victoria the Great at the TCM Movie Database
Victoria the Great at Virtual History

The films of Herbert Wilcox

Chu-Chin-Chow (1923)
Southern Love (1924)
Decameron Nights (1924)
Nell Gwyn (1926)
London (1926)
Mumsie (1927)
Tip Toes (1927)
Madame Pompadour (1927)
The Only Way (1927)
Dawn (1928)
The Bondman (1929)
The Woman in White (1929)
The Loves of Robert Burns (1930)
The Chance of a Night Time (1931)
Carnival (1931)
The Blue Danube (1932)
Goodnight, Vienna (1932)
Money Means Nothing (1932)
The King's Cup (1933)
The Little Damozel (1933)
Bitter Sweet (1933)
Yes, Mr Brown (1933)
The Queen's Affair (1934)
Nell Gwyn (1934)
Peg of Old Drury (1935)
This'll Make You Whistle (1936)
Three Maxims (1936)
London Melody (1937)
Limelight (1937)
Victoria the Great (1937)
Sixty Glorious Years (1938)
Nurse Edith Cavell (1939)
Irene (1940)
No, No, Nanette (1940)
Sunny (1941)
They Flew Alone (1942)
Forever and a Day (1943)
Yellow Canary (1943)
I Live in Grosvenor Square (1945)
Piccadilly Incident (1946)
The Courtneys of Curzon Street (1947)
Spring in Park Lane (1948)
Elizabeth of Ladymead (1948)
Maytime in Mayfair (1949)
Odette (1950)
Into the Blue (1950)
The Lady with a Lamp (1951)
Derby Day (1952)
Trent's Last Case (1952)
Laughing Anne (1953)
Trouble in the Glen (1954)
Lilacs in the Spring (1954)
King's Rhapsody (1955)
My Teenage Daughter (1956)
These Dangerous Years (1957)
The Man Who Wouldn't Talk (1958)
Wonderful Things! (1958)
The Lady Is a Square (1959)
The Heart of a Man (1959)

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