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CynInFlicks

Completely failed to hold my attention. Bummer...

12 years 7 months ago

Bette Davie always does a fine job of playing a queen. Let's face it, Ms Davis had a "queenly" personality. Although i enjoyed this movie, I didnt find it as gripping as "The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex".

11 years 2 months ago

dombrewer

A fairly underwhelming, mostly fictional romantic potboiler as Walter Raleigh (a solid, handsome Richard Todd) comes to London to court favour with the Queen to secure ships to sail to the New World only to fall for one of the Queen's off-limits ladies in waiting (Joan Collins, pretty, and surprisingly pretty good) - which proves to be a bad mistake when the jealous Queen takes an overly romantic interest in her new captain of the guard herself.
Bette Davis gives a typically charismatic but oddly mannered performance as the titular Elizabeth, twitching frantically in every scene and barking out all her lines, but Elizabeth is a fascinating character and one she fully invests in. I've yet to see her first stab at the role in "The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex" but am interested to see how the two relate in terms of performance style. This film is fine, but far from the "best of Bette".

11 years 2 months ago