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Sixty Glorious Years [Queen of Destiny] *** (1938, Anna Neagle, Anton Walbrook, C Aubrey Smith, Felix Aylmer) – Classic Movie Review 8036

Director Herbert Wilcox’s colourful 1938 royal historical drama sequel Sixty Glorious Years [Queen of Destiny] stars Dame Anna Neagle as Queen Victoria again in the gorgeously photographed Technicolor follow-up to the 1937 black-and-white hit Victoria the […]

Jan, 20

Victoria and Abdul [Victoria & Abdul] ***½ (2017, Judi Dench, Ali Fazal, Eddie Izzard, Olivia Williams, Michael Gambon) – Movie Review

Victoria & Abdul is sweet, funny and charming. How could it not be? The 82-year-old national treasure Dench shines again, re-creating or revisiting her popular Oscar nominated role as Queen Victoria from Mrs Brown 20 […]

Sep, 15

The Prime Minister *** (1941, John Gielgud, Diana Wynyard, Will Fyffe, Stephen Murray) – Classic Movie Review 4019

Britain’s got a new Prime Minister? Let’s look at a couple of old ones. The Prime Minister in question here is Benjamin Disraeli in Thorold Dickinson’s entertaining 1941 historical drama, a necessarily episodic biopic of […]

Jul, 14

The Young Victoria **** (2009, Emily Blunt, Rupert Friend, Paul Bettany, Jim Broadbent, Julian Glover, Miranda Richardson, Mark Strong, Harriet Walter) – Classic Movie Review 3295

Emily Blunt and Rupert Friend are perfect as the young Queen Victoria and her prince consort Albert in this silver-spoon, velvet-plush, beautifully staged version of the little known story of the iron lady’s struggle for […]

Jan, 27

Mrs Brown **** (1997, Judi Dench, Billy Connolly, Geoffrey Palmer, Gerard Butler, Richard Pasco, Antony Sher, Finty Williams) – Classic Movie Review 2979

In a majestic stroke of casting, Dame Judi Dench and Billy Connolly form a brilliant double act as Queen Victoria and John Brown, her loyal Scottish Highland gillie, summoned down from Balmoral to walk the […]

Oct, 12

Around the World in 80 Days ***½ (1989, Pierce Brosnan, Eric Idle, Julia Nickson, Robert Morley, Peter Ustinov) – Classic Movie Review 2454

In director Buzz Kulik’s classy, entertaining 1989 Malta-made miniseries, an ideally cast Pierce Brosnan shines as Jules Verne’s Victorian adventurer Phileas Fogg and Eric Idle is a total scene-stealer as his French gentleman’s gentleman Passepartout. […]

May, 04

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