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Anne of the Thousand Days (1969) Mary, Queen of Scots (1971)
directed
by Charles Jarrott
UK 1971
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Queen of Scots was quite a character. Through
three miserable marriages, religious battles,
the loss of her son, imprisonment, and finally
beheading, the ill-fated monarch was a melodrama
waiting for a huge costume movie to bring her
back to life. Mary Queen of Scots
fulfills that need admirably, primarily due to
the excellent performance of Vanessa Redgrave.
Long before she broadcasted her controversial
political beliefs at the Academy Award, she was
the daughter of Sir Michael Redgrave and a fine
dramatic actor in her own right. Redgrave's Queen of Scotland is a lovely, passionate woman, both brighter and more devout than the real Mary is said to have been. Redgrave makes of her subject both a victor and a martyr, a lover and a fighter—and, ultimately, the moral winner in her lifelong battle against Elizabeth I of England. (Whether Mary felt herself the winner as she laid her head on the block is a debatable, though unanswerable, question.) Redgrave's performance is nothing short of spectacular. Excerpt of Laurie Edwards review CultureCartel.com located HERE |
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One thing that is good about remaking old classics is that once the new versions are made, the older films sometimes resurface in digital format. In September 2007, just before Universal was going to release Elizabeth: The Golden Age into theaters, it released for the first time 2 costume dramas produced in UK by Hal B Wallis and directed by Charles Jarrott. Anne of the Thousand Days has been available in UK from Universal since 2006, but Mary Queen of Scots had a DVD debut in this 2-Movie Collection (it has been released in UK by Second Sight in February 2010). Both films were restored for this release and look very good. Anamorphic progressive transfers are in original Panavision (about 2.35:1), with very good colors (see reds and greens on captures below). Mary Queen of Scots looks a little softer in some scenes, but it's the way it was filmed so there is no complains. Both film feature subtitles in English or French and a fine 2.0 Dolby Digital English track - too bad Universal could not provide a 5.1 remix of original 6-track from 70mm prints.
Extras on the first film is limited to a brief trailer in full screen, but Mary Queen of Scots features an isolated music only track with a commentary as well as a 3-minute promotional featurette made at the time of the film being released to theaters. A 5-minute sneak peek of Elizabeth: The Golden Age is irrelevant now (since the film is already available on DVD and soon on Blu-ray), but that's the price we are willing to pay to make superior originals available in digital format. |
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(aka "Anne of a Thousand Days" )
directed by Charles Jarrott
UK 1969
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By the time
Richard Burton
had been signed
by producer Hal
B. Wallis to
star in Anne
of the Thousand
Days
(1969), the
story of Henry
VIII's marriage
to his second
wife, Anne
Boleyn, the
44-year old star
had already
spent several
years starring
in period films
with great
success. Most
recently, Burton
had co-starred
with Peter
O'Toole in
Becket
(1964) for which
he had earned
his third Oscar
nomination for
the title role.
Wallis, who had
produced
Becket,
was an old hand
at historical
drama, with
credits dating
back to
The
Private Lives of
Elizabeth and
Essex
(1939), and
Burton was eager
to work again
with the
producer,
eventually
convincing him
to purchase the
rights to the
1948 play by
Maxwell
Anderson,
Anne of the
Thousand Days. Excerpt from TCM located HERE |
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Theatrical Release: 18 December 1969 (USA)
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| Runtime | 2:25:05 | |
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