The Virgin Queen (1955)

71% User Rating

1h 32min

"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 KosterDirector

Cast

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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

Noel Drayton

Tailor

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CinemaSerf

Rating 60%

November 14, 2022

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 the suitably "pathetic" lady in waiting who falls for Raleigh - and in so doing they both earn the enmity of a jealous queen. Herbert Marshall tries to bring a little weight to the proceedings; Dan O'Herlihy a little humour but ultimately we are left with a colourful, but pretty mundane, wordy, historical costume drama with the odd flash of character from Davis.