In this sense, "Sixty Glorious Years" is unique, for it does not merely put on the screen the great events of the past century, but gives the spectator the sensation of being present. ' The wedding of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, the opening of the Great Exhibition, the Highland Games at Balmoral, the Crimean War, the death of the Prince Consort, Dis-radi's coup of the Suez Canal, the assassination of Gordon, the Diamond Jubilee and the last days of the Queen at Osborne House are stirring events embraced in the wonderhdl sweep of production and brought to reality on the screen.
Anna Neagle stars once more as Queen Victoria and Anton Walbrook as the Prince Consort, while a memorable cast of players impersonate ing the famous personalities of the Victorian age, is headed by C. Aubrey Smith as the Duke of Wellington.
Others in the cast are:—Walter Rilla (Prince. Ernst), Charles Carson (Sir Robert Peel). Greta Wegener (Baroness Lehzen), Felix Aylmer (Lord Palmerston), Lewis Casson (Lord John Russell), Pamela Standish (Princess Victoria), Gordon McLeod (John Brown), Olaf Olsen (Prince Frederick of Prussia), Henry Hellatt (Joseph Chamberlain}, Wyndham Goldie (A. J. Balfour). Malcolm Keen (W. E. Gladstone, Frederick Leister (H. H. Asquith), Derrick de Marney (Benjamin. Disraeli) and Laidman Browne (Gen. Godron)
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