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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.

"CinemaScope spectacularly spreads before you the velvet cape and violent age of Sir Walter Raleigh and The Virgin Queen."

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Review by: 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 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.

Reviewer rating: 6.0

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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

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