Sixty Glorious Years

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Movie
Original title Sixty Glorious Years
Country of production United Kingdom
original language English
Publishing year 1938
length 95 minutes
Rod
Director Herbert Wilcox
script Charles de Grandcourt
Miles Malleson
Robert Vansittart (dialogues)
production Herbert Wilcox for Imperator, London
music Anthony Collins
camera FA Young
William V. Skall
cut Jill Irving ,
Elmo Williams (Editing Supervisor)
occupation

Sixty Glorious Years is a British historical and early color film from 1938. Directed and produced by Herbert Wilcox , Anna Neagle and Adolf Wohlbrück (in exile as Anton Walbrook ) play the royal British-German royal couple Viktoria and Albert von Sachsen- Coburg-Gotha .

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The film, shot in Technicolor - in German: Sixty Glorious Years - is a supplement to the Wilcox film Queen Victoria, shot in 1937 the previous year . Further scenes from the long life of the British monarch are told in splendid presentation. While the time frame for the first film spanned the years 1837 to 1901, for this film it was the years 1840 to 1901.

Production notes

The world premiere of Sixty Glorious Years took place on October 14, 1938 in London. In the United States, the film opened on November 11th under the title Queen of Destiny , other performance countries until the end of 1939 were France, Portugal, the Netherlands, Sweden, Finland and Denmark. In contrast, it was never shown in German-speaking countries.

Grete Wegener in the role of Baroness Lehzen is Paul Wegener's wife Greta Schröder , who had twice (1937 and 1938) received an exit permit to England from the German Propaganda Minister Goebbels for this role .

The film was shot at Buckingham Palace , Windsor Castle , Balmoral Castle , Scotland , and Aberdeenshire , among others . The studio recordings were made in the London Film Studios and Denham Studios.

Both Victoria films were re-released in British cinemas in 1942 as one-piece under the title Queen Victoria .

Reviews

Variety summarized in 1938: "One of the most artistic and expensive films made in England."

The Movie & Video Guide says: “Neagle's follow-up to VICTORIA THE GREAT is a repeat of her fine performance as England's legendary queen; good production values. "

Halliwell's film wrote: “A stately pageant apparently composed of material which couldn't be fitted into the previous year's black-and-white success Victoria the Great . Fascinating, though the camera work is not very nimble ".

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Translation: "One of the most artistic and expensive films ever made in England."
  2. ↑ Leonard Maltin : Movie & Video Guide, 1996 edition, p. 1196. Translation: “Neagle's sequel to QUEEN VIKTORIA is a repetition of her good performance as England's legendary Queen; good production quality. "
  3. ↑ Leslie Halliwell : Halliwell's Film Guide, Seventh Edition, New York 1989, p. 925. Translation: “A magnificent parade train, which was obviously put together from film material that could no longer be inserted into last year's black-and-white success, Queen Victoria . Fascinating, even if the camera work isn't too agile. "

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