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Philip L. Evans

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Reviewed in the United States on September 27, 2023

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Old film on DVD arrived on time and just as described

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Lin Bee

Bette as The Virgin Queen

Reviewed in the United States on October 31, 2013

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This is a charming film to be watched again and again. I just really enjoy watching Bette become the Virgin Queen. Richard Todd is very good as Sir Walter and together they make sparks fly. His part with Joan Collins is quite weak though. They do not have the chemistry needed to pull of this most elusive match and daring match. Bess was quick to jump on Sir W. Raleigh at court and as I read in her bio by Anna Beer she was actually just like that so I guess it makes sense that Joan would try to play her role as Bess really played hers. Those days were immoral times and games of love were common and often. The court was all about better ones way with each other as a sort of card game. Some drew a better hand than others and some lost the heads, literally. The costumes are marvelous and the acting is wonderful by everyone. The Earl of Chadwick is played by the actor who plays Caligula in "The Robe". He is so young and suave as Chadwick but wicked too being the villain in most of his films. But the voice gives him away as there isn't any other like it. I was surprised by the man who played the Earl of Leicester or the one time Robert Dudley. He wasn't soft spoken or dull. This isn't the way I see him in all the bios written about the Queen. It was a miscasting in my estimation because no one that dull would have garnered the attention and vast wealth while being as dull as a post. Dudley was Knighted twice and had many estates given to him along with grants in the millions in todays money. Dudley was dapper and charming, witty and extremely handsome. It is too bad the producers did not see that a more charismatic actor was needed in this very important role. Anyway, this film is great and the disc is perfectly restored. I recommend this film to any Queen E. fans and Sir Walter R. fans. A-

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IVAN EDGAR PRATT

A Dated :Movie that Needs Updating and Editing in Modern Movie Making Terms

Reviewed in the United States on August 30, 2005

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I gave the movie the Virgin Queen four stars because Bette Davis has always been a great actress in my eyes. Certainly Bette Davis was very great in this very old movie production, which in when you view the movie, you can detect that the production is a little nieve for 2005 movie standards. What was really interesting about the movie Virgin Queen is how Jone Colin's and Bette Davis seem to equally carry the movie, in complimenting each others acting ability. As a study in elizabethan history, the movie might just need some modern writers, as a movie for studies in acting and movie production for its time, its an excellent and wonderful experience in entertainment. I felt the movie ended to abruptly, meaning as the movie climaxed, I got the odd feeling that the director and writers could have added another hour to the movie plot. It would be wonderful to see this movie rewritten in modern terms with more considerations as to the life of Queen Elizabeth the first. But in my opinion Bette Davis, even over Glenda Jackson is about the best acting portrial I've ever seen of Elizabeth the First (would like to see Meryl Streep act Elizabeth the First). I am planning to order from Amazon.com another movie with Bette Davis called "The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex, again Bette Davis plays Elizabeth the first in a 1939 production...........excellent acting and directing.

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Cliff, a lover of classic films

Bette Davis's second time as Queen Elizabeth

Reviewed in the United States on January 14, 2020

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This film is a good opportunity to see Bette Davis playing the same character again but with more experience under her belt. The first time was 1939. Here in 1955, she has more maturity and again she does well. Richard Todd is good and a good contract to Errol Flynn. Joan Collins is decorative and her romance with Todd needed more scenes to be convincing. The production is very good and Henry Koster's direction is effective and professional as usual. But the film, I feel, needs to be longer with more interplay with these three actors. Beautiful costumes, impressive art direction and grandiose musical scoring isn't enough here to make up for a shorter running time. However ,this film, as it is, is more than just good. Too bad, it could have been great and a major movie of the 50's.

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Predestogo

Loved it

Reviewed in the United States on October 20, 2022

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One of Bette Davis’s better ones.

Reviewed in the United States on June 6, 2015

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The reason I love this movie is the way that Bette Davis portrays Elizabeth. She is educated, commanding and somewhat manly, as she had to have been in order to reign for as long and as successfully as she did. She did not play Elizabeth as a queen in the conventional sense, but more as a female king. That way a unique and bold interpretation, and probably closer to the real Elizabeth.
I knocked off a star for the cheesy love story. It should have been enough to explore the relationship between Raleigh and Elizabeth, the rest was just faff.

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Gerald Palladino

Interesting film. Lovely color.

Reviewed in the United States on June 27, 2021

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Betty Davis excellent

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Jean Boggio

That it arrived in good time and in excellent shape.

Reviewed in the United States on July 19, 2021

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The product arrived in a timely manner and in excellent condition.

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Mr. David Titley

Not a patch on Shakespeare in Love!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 12, 2014

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The picture quality is good, the sound is good, the colour is good. The acting is competent.
Joan Collins does her best as an also-ran love interest, but she is lumbered with that 'girls-are-made-to-look-pretty-and-be-kissed' 1950s-woman kind of character.
Bette Davis gives her all,& now and again makes the sparks fly. As Elizabeth her gait is very manly. Whether this was due to a very cumbersome costume, or to a thoroughly mistaken idea of what Elizabeth was actually like, I cannot say. Certainly Elizabeth's contemporaries - friend and foe - described the Queen as graceful even in old age, when she had lost her hair and her teeth & her fine skin.
I would describe this as a Sunday afternoon film. Suitable for passing an hour or so after a good meal, and made - it would seem - with no more than a Sunday afternoon's thought: unimaginative and pedestrian.
The actors do their best with stagey direction and excessively clear lighting.
Perhaps we now know too much about these historic figures; so many recent television series have made them familiar, warts and all.

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Roman D.

Great Movie/Horrible Slim Case

Reviewed in Canada on November 14, 2019

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A great time period classic from the 1950's with the only major fault being in its distribution in a slim case format. And as for slim cases, these might be useful for someone who lives in a 200 or 300 square foot residence but not for anyone else.

Helle Rink

Loneliness at the top

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 31, 2013

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This is a perfect example of how power can influence a person but how that person does not let power become dominant. Considering whose father Elizabeth I was, a tyrant of the worst kind, she has become level headed and self appraising in her interaction and judgment of humans. No wonder she is England's most famous monarch.

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Lorna M.

Bette davis is great in this classic

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 12, 2017

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Very good the best version of queen Elizabeth x

Andrew

They Don't Make Them Like They Used To...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 6, 2017

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Bought this for myself! It's a real classic, it's exactly how Hollywood should portray the Tudor period, lavish, over the top and completely inaccurate and that's why I love this film.

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