“CinemaScope spectacularly spreads before you the velvet cape and violent age of Sir Walter Raleigh and The Virgin Queen.”
Sir Walter Raleigh overcomes court intrigue to win favor with the Queen in order to get financing for a proposed voyage to the New World.
Henry Koster
Charles Brackett
Mindret Lord
Harry Brown
Charles G. Clarke
Franz Waxman
Richard Todd
Sir Walter Raleigh
Bette Davis
Queen Elizabeth I
Joan Collins
Beth Throgmorton
Jay Robinson
Chadwick
Herbert Marshall
Lord Leicester
Dan O'Herlihy
Lord Derry
Robert Douglas
Sir Christopher Hatton
Romney Brent
French Ambassador
Leslie Parrish
Anne
Lisa Daniels
Mary
Gertrude Astor
Lady-in-Waiting - 2nd Group
Rod Taylor
Cpl. Gwilym
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CinemaSerf
Historically, it is safe to say that Elizabeth I and Sir Walter Raleigh didn't always get on, but I am not sure their relationship was ever quite this verbose. This is a good enough looking melodrama with Bette Davis and Richard Todd out to enrich England (and themselves) co-starring Joan Collins as...
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