Victoria the Great (1937)

Directed by

Herbert Wilcox

Genre

drama film, biographical film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 52m

Rating

5.6 of 10 from 8 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This movie tells the story of Queen Victoria from her early reign through her marriage to Prince Albert and her life after his death. It was made to celebrate the centennial of her rule.

dignifiedbiographicalromanticpatrioticformalhistoricalmelancholicsentimental

What happens

Victoria the Great is a 1937 British historical film directed by Herbert Wilcox and starring Anna Neagle, Anton Walbrook and Walter Rilla. When Laurence Housman's play Victoria Regina was banned by the Lord Chamberlain (in 1935 the royal family could not be shown on the British stage), its subsequent Broadway success prompted King Edward VIII to commission producer Herbert Wilcox to turn it into a film, commemorating the centenary of Victoria's reign. The film biography of Queen Victoria concentrates initially on the early years of her reign with her marriage to Prince Albert and her subsequent rule after Albert's death in 1861. It was released in the year of Victoria’s great-grandson 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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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