Victoria the Great (1937)

19371h 46mdir. Herbert WilcoxUnited Kingdombiographical filmdrama film

Note: this print runs 106 minutes against a recorded 112 minutes. It is the best copy we have found; we keep looking for a complete print.

With Anna Neagle, Anton Walbrook, Walter Rilla, H. B. Warner, Mary Morris, Felix Aylmer, Charles Carson, Gordon McLeod

Directed by Herbert Wilcox

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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 G

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