Sixty Glorious Years

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Sixty Glorious Years
Sixty Glorious Years FilmPoster.jpeg
A poster with the film's US title: Queen of Destiny
Directed byHerbert Wilcox
Written byCharles de Grandcourt (writer)
Miles Malleson (writer)
Sir Robert Vansittart (dialogue)
Sir Robert Vansittart (scenario)
Produced byHerbert Wilcox
StarringSee below
CinematographyFreddie Young, William V. Skall
Edited byJill Irving
Music byAnthony Collins
Production
company
Imperator Film Productions
Distributed byRKO Radio Pictures
Release dates
  • 14 October 1938 (1938-10-14)
(UK)
  • 11 November 1938 (1938-11-11)
(US)
Running time
95 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Sixty Glorious Years is a 1938 British colour film directed by Herbert Wilcox.[1] The film is a sequel to the 1937 film Victoria the Great.[2]

The film is also known as Queen of Destiny in the US.[3]

Cast[]

  • Anna Neagle as Queen Victoria
  • Anton Walbrook as Prince Albert
  • C. Aubrey Smith as Duke of Wellington
  • Walter Rilla as Prince Ernst
  • Charles Carson as Sir Robert Peel
  • Felix Aylmer as Lord Palmerston
  • Lewis Casson as Lord John Russell
  • Pamela Standish as Victoria, Princess Royal
  • Gordon McLeod as John Brown
  • Henry Hallett as Joseph Chamberlain
  • Wyndham Goldie as Arthur Balfour
  • Malcolm Keen as William Ewart Gladstone
  • Frederick Leister as H. H. Asquith
  • Derrick De Marney as Benjamin Disraeli
  • Joyce Bland as Florence Nightingale
  • Frank Cellier as Lord Derby
  • Harvey Braban as Lord Salisbury
  • Aubrey Dexter as The Prince of Wales[clarification needed]
  • Robert Eddison as Lanternist Professor
  • Stuart Robertson as Mr. Anson
  • Olaf Olsen as Prince Fredrick
  • Marie Wright as Maggie
  • Laidman Browne as Gen. Gordon
  • Greta Schröder as Baroness Lehzen

Critical reception[]

The Radio Times gave the film 3 out of five stars, calling it "old-fashioned, four-square, and very nice";[2] and TV Guide also gave the same rating, calling the film "an unnecessary, but worthwhile, sequel to the epic screen biography Victoria the Great (1937)... As was the case in Victoria the Great, Wilcox's production values are superlative, with the sets and costumes accurate reproductions of the actual items which are housed at the British Museum. The American public was so interested in both the Queen Victoria films that RKO and Wilcox formed a contract that ensured distribution of British films in the U.S. and an exchange of American and British talent for various productions. This led to husband and wife Wilcox and Neagle's next project, Nurse Edith Cavell (1939), which was produced in Hollywood."[4]

References[]

  1. ^ "Sixty Glorious Years (1938)".
  2. ^ a b "Sixty Glorious Years – Film from RadioTimes".
  3. ^ "Abbreviated View of Movie Page".
  4. ^ "Sixty Glorious Years".

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