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Mary, Queen of Scots (1971) + Extras

Posted By: Rare-1

Date: 3 May 2015 11:27:45

Mary, Queen of Scots (1971) + Extras
DVDRip | MKV | 720 x 436 | AVC @ 1850 Kbps | 131 min | 2.05 Gb
Audio: English AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps (2Tracks) + Commentary | Subs: English (.srt)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History | UK

Mary Stuart, who was named Queen of Scotland when she was only six days old, is the last Roman Catholic ruler of Scotland. She is imprisoned at he age of 23 by her cousin Elizabeth Tudor, the English Queen and her arch adversary. Nineteen years later the life of Mary is to be ended on the scaffold and with her execution the last threat to Elizabeth's throne has been removed. The two Queens with their contrasting personalities make a dramatic counterpoint to history.

IMDB 7.5/10 from 2732 users

Director: Charles Jarrott
Writer: John Hale (original screenplay)
Actors: Vanessa Redgrave, Glenda Jackson, Patrick McGoohan, Timothy Dalton
Rated: PG-13
Runtime: 131 min

Mary, Queen of Scots is a 1972 film based on the life of Queen Mary I of Scotland. Like the play on the same subject by Friedrich Schiller and the opera on the same subject by Gaetano Donizetti, it takes considerable liberties with history in order to achieve increased dramatic effect.

It stars Vanessa Redgrave as Mary; Glenda Jackson as Queen Elizabeth I of England; Patrick McGoohan as Mary's brother James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray; Timothy Dalton as Mary's second husband Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley; Nigel Davenport as Mary's third husband, James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell; Trevor Howard as Elizabeth's advisor Sir William Cecil; Daniel Massey as Elizabeth's lover, Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester; Ian Holm as Mary's advisor, David Rizzio; Robert James as Scottish religious reformer John Knox; Richard Denning as Mary's first husband, King Francis of France; Katherine Kath as Mary's first mother-in-law, Catherine de' Medici, Vernon Dobtcheff as Mary's uncle, the Duke of Guise; Raf De La Torre as her other uncle, the Cardinal of Lorraine; Richard Warner as Elizabeth's spy master Francis Walsingham; Bruce Purchase as the Earl of Morton; and Brian Coburn as the Earl of Huntly.

The movie was written by John Hale and directed by Charles Jarrott.

It was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actress in a Leading Role (Vanessa Redgrave), Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Best Costume Design, Best Music, Original Dramatic Score and Best Sound.

Review:
Two queens of the cinema vie as rival sovereigns in this 16th century historical drama nominated for four Academy Awards and one Golden Globe. Vanessa Redgrave stars in the title role as Mary Stuart (1542-1587), queen of Scotland, who claims the English throne as the granddaughter of Henry VIII's sister. Glenda Jackson portrays Elizabeth I (1533-1603), queen of England, who defends her throne against charges that she was the illegitimate offspring of an illegal marriage between Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn. Redgrave is magnificent. Not only does she become Mary physically (like Redgrave, Mary was tall, red-haired, and beautiful), she also becomes Mary psychologically (regal and domineering at one moment, frivolous and restive the next). Jackson is equally magnificent as Elizabeth, molding her screen persona into the attractive, politically clever, ambitious queen who could be as soft and warm, or as cold and ruthless, as her job demanded. To watch Redgrave and Jackson go for the throat is a jousting match of the first rank. Backing them up in supporting roles is a strong cast: Nigel Davenport, Trevor Howard, Ian Holm, Patrick McGoohan, and Daniel Massey. They plot and connive as the enemies and friends of the two queens, and are not above murder most foul or murder most timely. It is all jolly good fun. Reviewers generally turned thumbs down on Timothy Dalton's performance as Lord Henry Darnley, Mary's second husband and king-consort, saying it was one-dimensional and shallow. However, Darnley himself was something of a piffling lightweight – talented only at indolence and drunkenness. Perhaps Dalton was simply mirroring history. The film is not without its faults, namely, a sometimes-uninspired script and a sometimes-revisionist interpretation of history that sanitizes machinating Mary. However, the costumes, music, and settings are evocative of the era, and the Protestant-Catholic feuding and double-dealing keep the plot moving at a gallop.

Extra included:
Isolated John Barry Music Track & English Commentary by Film Historians Nick Redman and Jon Burlingame.
Overture and Intermission Music.

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