
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.
- 7.2
- 1955
- Released
- 1h 32m

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
TailorReleased
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- #queen elizabeth i
- #tudor
- #british history
- #palace intrigue
- #16th century
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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











